Welltower (HCN) Reports In-Line Q1 EPS

Welltower (NYSE: HCN) reported Q1 EPS of $1.05, in-line with the analyst estimate of $1.05. Revenue for the quarter came in at $1.06 billion versus the consensus estimate of $1.05 billion.

Outlook for 2017 Net income attributable to common stockholders has been revised to a range of $2.39 to $2.49 per diluted share from the previous range of $2.65 to $2.75 per diluted share primarily due to the normalizing items in Exhibit 1. We are affirming our 2017 normalized FFO attributable to common stockholders guidance and expect to report in a range of $4.15 to $4.25 per diluted share. As previously disclosed, we will no longer report FAD, primarily because it could be considered a liquidity metric, but we will provide relevant data components. In preparing our guidance, we have updated the following assumptions:

Same Store NOI: We continue to expect average blended SSNOI growth of approximately 2%-3% in 2017.
Acquisitions: 2017 earnings guidance excludes any additional potential acquisitions beyond what has been announced.
Development: We anticipate funding additional development of approximately $265 million in 2017 relating to projects underway on March 31, 2017. We expect development conversions during the remainder of 2017 of approximately $375 million, which are currently expected to generate stabilized yields of approximately 7.9%. These projections exclude the midtown Manhattan development project which is still in the planning stage.
Dispositions: We continue to anticipate approximately $2 billion of disposition proceeds at a blended yield of 7.6% in 2017. This includes approximately $1.1 billion of proceeds from dispositions completed to-date and $0.9 billion of incremental proceeds from other potential loan payoffs and property sales.

Our guidance does not include any additional investments, dispositions or capital transactions beyond what we have announced, nor any transaction costs, impairments, unanticipated additions to the loan loss reserve or other additional normalizing items. Please see the exhibits for a reconciliation of the outlook for net income available to common stockholders to FFO attributable to common stockholders. We will provide additional detail regarding our 2017 outlook and assumptions on the first quarter 2017 conference cal

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