Short interest in Ventas Inc (NYSE:VTR) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 21.48M to 21.50M. This put 6.89% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Ventas gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Ventas's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 2.46M shares traded per day, it would take 8.73 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.