shares of welltower inc well advanced 206 to 8753 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 013 to 452268 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 011 to 3536073 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains welltower inc closed 227 short of its 52week high 8980 which the company achieved on july 16th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as ventas inc vtr rose 092 to 5594 healthpeak properties inc peak rose 056 to 3600 and healthcare trust of america inc hta rose 033 to 3033 trading volume 31 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 20 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