shares of ventas inc vtr inched 073 higher to 4582 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 011 to 3324156 and the sp 500 index spx falling 040 to 382925 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of gains ventas inc closed 1820 short of its 52week high 6402 which the company reached on march 29th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as welltower inc well rose 134 to 6594 boston properties inc bxp rose 073 to 6890 and healthpeak properties inc peak rose 056 to 2531 trading volume 23 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 23 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use