Shares on Ventas Inc. (NYSE:

), a real estate investment trust (REIT) with a portfolio of seniors housing and healthcare properties in the United States and Canada, is seeing some bearish put activity today. The June $45 put was purchased 3,000 times a short while ago; open interest on the strike was 3,232 contracts. Today’s activity pushed the put/call ratio in Ventas Inc. to 46x the norm. Shares are trading higher today by 0.22% to $49.41