- HCP Ticker
- 🇺🇸 NYSE Exchange
- 201 Employees
- 🏠 Real Estate Sector
- • Industry
- Thomas M. Herzog CEO
Analyst Recommendations
This chart is a recommendation for investors. To provide forecasts, analysts and brokers use companies' public financial reports and speak with their employees and clients. The end result is a solution that's marked on the chart, which shows analysts' opinions at different periods of time. Move your cursor to track on what the dates the recommendations changed.
Investors shouldn't only follow analyst recommendations. Forecasts should be used to supplement existing strategies and plans. Trading based on a recommendation chart is is considered bad practice. Analyst reports should only be used in conjunction with your own analytics.
Also known as strong sell, it's a recommendation to sell a security or to liquidate an asset.
A recommendation that means a stock is expected to do slightly worse than the overall stock market return. Underperform can also be expressed as "moderate sell", "weak hold" and "underweight."
A company with a hold recommendation is expected to perform on par with comparable companies or in line with the market.
Also known as "moderate buy", "accumulate", and "overweight." Outperform is an analyst recommendation meaning a stock is expected to do slightly better than the market return.
Also known as strong buy and "on the recommended list." Needless to say, buy is a recommendation to purchase a specific security.
Also known as strong sell, it's a recommendation to sell a security or to liquidate an asset.
A recommendation that means a stock is expected to do slightly worse than the overall stock market return. Underperform can also be expressed as "moderate sell", "weak hold" and "underweight."
A company with a hold recommendation is expected to perform on par with comparable companies or in line with the market.
Also known as "moderate buy", "accumulate", and "overweight." Outperform is an analyst recommendation meaning a stock is expected to do slightly better than the market return.
Also known as strong buy and "on the recommended list." Needless to say, buy is a recommendation to purchase a specific security.
HCP, Inc. is a real estate investment trust which invests primarily in real estate serving the healthcare industry in the United States. It acquires, develops, leases, sells, and manages healthcare real estate and provides mortgage and other financing to healthcare providers. It operates through the following business segments: Senior Housing Triple-Net, Senior Housing Operating Portfolio, Life Science, and Medical Office. The Senior Housing Triple-Net and Operating Portfolio segments manage senior housing facilities, which include independent living, assisted living and memory care facilities, care homes, and continuing care retirement communities by utilizing triple-net leases and RIDEA structures. The Life Science segment contains laboratory and office space primarily for biotechnology, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, scientific research institutions, government agencies, and other organizations involved in the life science industry. The Medical Office segment includes pharmacies, hospital ancillary service space, and outpatient services such as diagnostic centers, rehabilitation clinics, and day-surgery operating rooms. The company was founded in March 1985 and is headquartered in Long Beach, CA.