shares of ventas inc vtr inched 065 higher to 4786 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 078 to 395500 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 088 to 3151043 ventas inc closed 1616 below its 52week high 6402 which the company achieved on march 29th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as welltower inc well rose 071 to 7665 healthpeak properties inc peak fell 015 to 2625 and duke realty corp dre fell 094 to 5885 trading volume 27 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 17 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