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Welltower Inc.

WELL
Exchange
NYSE
Industry
Real Estate Investment Trusts
SEC CIK
0000766704

In the last 90 days, Welltower Inc. insiders filed 1 open-market purchase and 0 sales; 1,608 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $160.7B in total; no superinvestor holds it.

Four kinds of short-selling data, each measuring something different:

  • Short interest: shares sold short and not yet bought back, as of a settlement date. FINRA publishes it twice a month, about eight business days after the settlement date.
  • Daily short volume: shares sold short each day in off-exchange trades reported to FINRA. It counts trades, not open positions, and is published the next day.
  • Fails-to-deliver: shares not delivered by the settlement date. The SEC publishes them twice a month, about two weeks late.
  • ATS (dark pool) volume: weekly volume on alternative trading systems and other off-exchange venues. FINRA publishes it two to four weeks after the week.

More in the glossary.

Short interest

Shares sold short and not yet bought back, from FINRA, on every settlement date in the last two years.

Short interest
16.7M
Shares, settlement Oct 15, 2026
Change
−1.05M
−5.9% vs. Sep 30, 2026
Days to cover
6.24
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
2.68M
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 15, 2024: 8,594,005 sharesOct 31, 2024: 9,666,967 sharesNov 15, 2024: 9,300,542 sharesNov 29, 2024: 10,685,584 sharesDec 13, 2024: 10,094,177 sharesDec 31, 2024: 9,439,187 sharesJan 15, 2025: 9,452,618 sharesJan 31, 2025: 8,814,517 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 9,364,601 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 10,756,696 sharesMar 14, 2025: 12,242,831 sharesMar 31, 2025: 8,983,026 sharesApr 15, 2025: 8,470,216 sharesApr 30, 2025: 11,855,223 sharesMay 15, 2025: 12,584,019 sharesMay 30, 2025: 10,053,277 sharesJun 13, 2025: 11,258,572 sharesJun 30, 2025: 9,796,393 sharesJul 15, 2025: 10,039,594 sharesJul 31, 2025: 10,244,889 sharesAug 15, 2025: 11,725,710 sharesAug 29, 2025: 12,709,577 sharesSep 15, 2025: 12,275,382 sharesSep 30, 2025: 11,396,513 sharesOct 15, 2025: 10,978,979 sharesOct 31, 2025: 11,135,369 sharesNov 14, 2025: 12,410,239 sharesNov 28, 2025: 14,647,589 sharesDec 15, 2025: 12,165,881 sharesDec 31, 2025: 13,094,288 sharesJan 15, 2026: 13,027,925 sharesJan 30, 2026: 13,153,942 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 14,360,115 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 15,642,773 sharesMar 13, 2026: 17,053,654 sharesMar 31, 2026: 16,900,370 sharesApr 15, 2026: 17,097,209 sharesApr 30, 2026: 16,305,325 sharesMay 15, 2026: 18,647,490 sharesMay 29, 2026: 17,755,855 sharesJun 15, 2026: 18,563,046 sharesJun 30, 2026: 19,373,177 sharesJul 15, 2026: 19,065,952 sharesJul 31, 2026: 17,696,568 sharesAug 14, 2026: 17,779,188 sharesAug 31, 2026: 18,431,638 sharesSep 15, 2026: 17,596,292 sharesSep 30, 2026: 17,744,284 sharesOct 15, 2026: 16,696,223 shares
Short interest in WELL by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 15, 202616.7M−1.05M−5.9%2.68M6.24
Sep 30, 202617.7M+148.0K+0.8%2.95M6.02
Sep 15, 202617.6M−835.3K−4.5%2.33M7.56
Aug 31, 202618.4M+652.5K+3.7%2.52M7.30
Aug 14, 202617.8M+82.6K+0.5%3.39M5.24
Jul 31, 202617.7M−1.37M−7.2%2.99M5.92
Jul 15, 202619.1M−307.2K−1.6%2.84M6.70
Jun 30, 202619.4M+810.1K+4.4%4.27M4.54
Jun 15, 202618.6M+807.2K+4.6%3.46M5.37
May 29, 202617.8M−891.6K−4.8%4.45M3.99
May 15, 202618.6M+2.34M+14.4%3.03M6.16
Apr 30, 202616.3M−791.9K−4.6%2.91M5.61
Apr 15, 202617.1M+196.8K+1.2%2.43M7.03
Mar 31, 202616.9M−153.3K−0.9%3.38M4.99
Mar 13, 202617.1M+1.41M+9.0%3.05M5.60
Feb 27, 202615.6M+1.28M+8.9%3.22M4.86
Feb 13, 202614.4M+1.21M+9.2%3.61M3.97
Jan 30, 202613.2M+126.0K+1.0%3.49M3.77
Jan 15, 202613.0M−66.4K−0.5%2.69M4.84
Dec 31, 202513.1M+928.4K+7.6%3.63M3.61
Dec 15, 202512.2M−2.48M−16.9%3.57M3.41
Nov 28, 202514.6M+2.24M+18.0%3.83M3.83
Nov 14, 202512.4M+1.27M+11.5%3.12M3.98
Oct 31, 202511.1M+156.4K+1.4%3.07M3.63
Oct 15, 202511.0M−417.5K−3.7%2.63M4.18
Sep 30, 202511.4M−878.9K−7.2%4.98M2.29
Sep 15, 202512.3M−434.2K−3.4%2.24M5.49
Aug 29, 202512.7M+983.9K+8.4%2.11M6.01
Aug 15, 202511.7M+1.48M+14.5%2.58M4.55
Jul 31, 202510.2M+205.3K+2.0%2.21M4.64
Jul 15, 202510.0M+243.2K+2.5%2.58M3.89
Jun 30, 20259.80M−1.46M−13.0%4.62M2.12
Jun 13, 202511.3M+1.21M+12.0%2.44M4.61
May 30, 202510.1M−2.53M−20.1%2.88M3.49
May 15, 202512.6M+728.8K+6.2%2.81M4.48
Apr 30, 202511.9M+3.39M+40.0%2.64M4.50
Apr 15, 20258.47M−512.8K−5.7%3.64M2.33
Mar 31, 20258.98M−3.26M−26.6%4.33M2.07
Mar 14, 202512.2M+1.49M+13.8%2.88M4.25
Feb 28, 202510.8M+1.39M+14.9%3.08M3.49
Feb 14, 20259.36M+550.1K+6.2%2.77M3.38
Jan 31, 20258.81M−638.1K−6.8%2.62M3.36
Jan 15, 20259.45M+13.4K+0.1%2.35M4.03
Dec 31, 20249.44M−655.0K−6.5%3.30M2.86
Dec 13, 202410.1M−591.4K−5.5%2.59M3.90
Nov 29, 202410.7M+1.39M+14.9%3.00M3.56
Nov 15, 20249.30M−366.4K−3.8%2.45M3.79
Oct 31, 20249.67M+1.07M+12.5%2.36M4.09
Oct 15, 20248.59M−2.44M−22.1%2.11M4.08

Fails-to-deliver

Shares that weren't delivered by the settlement date, from the SEC, for the last 30 dates with fails. The price is the previous day's closing price published by the SEC.

Fails-to-deliver in WELL by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Oct 9, 2026322$223.04$71.8K
Oct 8, 202612$221.12$2.65K
Sep 22, 20263$232.76$698.28
Sep 21, 2026306,181$228.87$70.1M
Aug 31, 20262,561$238.07$609.7K
Aug 28, 2026187,301$239.60$44.9M
Aug 24, 202649,795$239.22$11.9M
Aug 18, 2026952,696$235.30$224.2M
Aug 14, 2026478$234.44$112.1K
Aug 11, 202670$235.04$16.5K
Aug 10, 202685,891$236.92$20.3M
Aug 7, 2026942,494$236.00$222.4M
Aug 5, 2026233$231.57$54.0K
Aug 4, 2026747$233.10$174.1K
Jul 28, 20262,427$248.34$602.7K
Jul 23, 202618$245.04$4.41K
Jul 20, 2026454$243.25$110.4K
Jul 17, 202675$241.49$18.1K
Jul 16, 20261,432$233.29$334.1K
Jul 15, 202614,800$236.00$3.49M
Jul 9, 20264,969$233.90$1.16M
Jul 6, 202658,649$236.06$13.8M
Jun 30, 20268$227.73$1.82K
Jun 26, 2026124,375$223.73$27.8M
Jun 25, 2026887,402$221.43$196.5M
Jun 24, 20262$217.67$435.34
Jun 22, 202654,153$206.65$11.2M
Jun 15, 20268$214.23$1.71K
Jun 12, 202660$210.67$12.6K
Jun 11, 202663,683$211.36$13.5M

Daily short volume

Off-exchange short-sale volume, not short interest: shares sold short each day in trades reported to FINRA, for the last 30 trading days.

The short volume ratio isn't a sentiment gauge: market makers sell short to fill buy orders and to hedge, so short sales are usually about half of off-exchange volume.

Off-exchange short volume in WELL by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 9, 2026508,611121,021,17949.8%
Nov 6, 2026479,968328883,40354.3%
Nov 5, 2026849,41238,0601,825,45246.5%
Nov 4, 2026712,2552701,292,32755.1%
Nov 3, 2026429,7192818,59652.5%
Nov 2, 2026556,5654251,056,29752.7%
Oct 30, 2026736,5342321,171,35762.9%
Oct 29, 2026753,47623,7381,396,54454.0%
Oct 28, 20262,028,9635472,746,93573.9%
Oct 27, 20261,654,53775,9002,443,80567.7%
Oct 26, 2026501,1890765,21865.5%
Oct 23, 2026403,20411579,51669.6%
Oct 22, 2026423,5066645,90865.6%
Oct 21, 2026313,156275469,41366.7%
Oct 20, 2026589,229453803,08873.4%
Oct 19, 2026663,42265852,39377.8%
Oct 16, 2026425,84126639,51966.6%
Oct 15, 2026608,76213,990986,60061.7%
Oct 14, 2026417,516527753,87455.4%
Oct 13, 2026333,351252763,63043.7%
Oct 12, 2026354,876706682,12452.0%
Oct 9, 2026457,2951,664806,63356.7%
Oct 8, 2026423,0854,248829,91251.0%
Oct 7, 2026323,294461593,11454.5%
Oct 6, 2026419,45554666,93862.9%
Oct 5, 2026505,836632836,62160.5%
Oct 2, 2026609,3571,0161,003,82360.7%
Oct 1, 2026582,1641,006984,46259.1%
Sep 30, 2026353,371327837,27642.2%
Sep 29, 2026371,7640707,37452.6%

ATS (dark pool) volume

Weekly volume on alternative trading systems (ATS) and other off-exchange (OTC) venues, from FINRA, for the last 12 weeks. ATS share is ATS volume ÷ (ATS + OTC volume), not a share of all trading.

Weekly ATS and OTC volume in WELL
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 19, 2026T12,346,80356,3332,244,23432,69251.1%
Oct 12, 2026T12,624,81569,5383,738,79231,08541.2%
Oct 5, 2026T12,850,93458,7531,866,44233,94460.4%
Sep 28, 2026T13,250,53172,8872,033,36833,11661.5%
Sep 21, 2026T12,540,80259,4683,512,81128,78542.0%
Sep 14, 2026T12,556,65659,4483,682,76130,75741.0%
Sep 7, 2026T11,883,33856,8552,410,53424,60943.9%
Aug 31, 2026T13,235,20464,0773,650,54431,77647.0%
Aug 24, 2026T12,651,76359,6641,870,96126,38358.6%
Aug 17, 2026T12,185,30556,7193,255,61527,68140.2%
Aug 10, 2026T14,163,14676,2243,637,33430,12553.4%
Aug 3, 2026T14,276,31675,6734,270,15832,91950.0%