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Welltower (WELL) Q3 2026 Earnings: Guidance Mixed

Q3 2026 (ended Sep 30, 2026): revenue, EPS and full-year guidance from the SEC filing

Published Nov 5, 2026

TL;DR

  • Welltower: mixed; revenue +38.4% vs a year earlier.

Welltower's results for Q3 2026 (ended Sep 30, 2026) come from the company's own earnings release, filed with the SEC on 2026-10-26. Everything below is taken from that filing; quotes are copied exactly. Company outlooks are the company's own.

At a glance

ItemValue
Revenue (GAAP)$3,716 million (+38.4% vs a year earlier)
Diluted EPS (GAAP)$0.54
Adjusted per-share figure (company's non-GAAP measure; FFO/AFFO for REITs)$1.67
Full-year guidanceMixed

Guidance

Welltower raised 2026 normalized FFO guidance to $6.47–$6.53 and net income to $3.31–$3.37 per share; NAREIT FFO cut to $6.07–$6.13 from $6.21–$6.29.

Why this label: Own Prior vs Current table: NAREIT FFO/share cut to $6.07-6.13 from $6.21-6.29 while net income ($3.31-3.37) and normalized FFO ($6.47-6.53) rose; core moved both ways.

MetricPeriodNewPrior (as stated in the release)
net income attributable to common stockholders per diluted shareFY2026$3.31–$3.37$3.11–$3.19
normalized FFO per diluted shareFY2026$6.47–$6.53$6.36–$6.44
NAREIT FFO per diluted shareFY2026$6.07–$6.13$6.21–$6.29
average blended same store NOI growthFY202615.0%–16.25%not stated

From the release

Revenue: "Total revenues · 2,685,692 · 3,715,777 · 7,657,023 · 10,612,289"

Earnings per share: "Diluted (2) · $ · 0.41 · $ · 0.54 · $ · 1.26 · $ · 2.16"

net income attributable to common stockholders per diluted share: "Net income attributable to common stockholders guidance has been revised to a range of $3.31 to $3.37 per diluted share from the previous range of $3.11 to $3.19."

normalized FFO per diluted share: "We also increased the guidance range of full year normalized FFO attributable to common stockholders to a range of $6.47 to $6.53 per diluted share from the previous range of $6.36 to $6.44."

NAREIT FFO per diluted share: "NAREIT FFO · $ · 6.21 · $ · 6.29 · $ · 6.07 · $ · 6.13"

Quotes are copied from the filing; in table rows, cell borders are shown as “·”.

Key fact: Normalized FFO guide raised to $6.47–$6.53; NAREIT FFO guide lowered; Q3 normalized FFO +24.6%.

Source

Welltower earnings release (SEC filing), accession 0000766704-26-000043, filed 2026-10-26.

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