shares of ventas inc vtr inched 042 higher to 5265 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 115 to 392105 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 071 to 3176154 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains ventas inc closed 1137 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 095 to 8492 healthpeak properties inc peak rose 004 to 2675 and duke realty corp dre rose 020 to 6015 trading volume 17 m remained 46169 below its 50day average volume of 18 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