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Company snapshot — CareTrust REIT Inc.

CTRE in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
CareTrust REIT owns, buys, develops and leases nursing homes, senior-housing communities and other healthcare properties, then rents them out under long-term leases. Its holdings span the United States and reach into the United Kingdom, and it grows both by adding sites and by improving those it already holds. It is based in Dana Point, California, and runs its own operations rather than handing them to an outside manager.
Where it sits in the stack
CareTrust carries no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index; it sits instead in the Real Estate sector of the wider Closelook universe, within healthcare-facility REITs, landlords whose tenants run nursing and senior-housing sites rather than build technology infrastructure.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group for CareTrust gathers scored real-estate names sharing its sector and country, among them CoStar Group, Ke Holdings, American Healthcare REIT, Vivmark Residential and Agree Realty; the market also sets it against Ventas, another healthcare-property landlord.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score, with quality the strongest module and valuation the weakest; it holds no seat in Rubin or Halo, and the diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the gap between a firmer quality reading and a softer valuation reading narrows, and whether analyst target revisions keep tracking that same split.

CareTrust REIT Inc. (CTRE) trades on US exchanges, classified under Real Estate.

The Closelook company score reads 56/100 composite (momentum 47, quality 72, valuation 39) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for CTRE, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

The Street on this name 1 analyst action on the wire · latest: price target by Wells Fargo, 2026-09-01

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for CTRE from the Closelook wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Wells Fargo — target 44 from 47 Target cut to $44 from $47 (+13% to spot) 2026-09-01

1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Who it is priced against REIT - Healthcare Facilities · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

REIT - Healthcare Facilities

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against CTRE on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.86%, quarterly · buybacks 3 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What CTRE pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.45 USD per share · a 3.86% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +116.5% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.67 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.39 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-30
  • By calendar year 2025: 1.34 USD (partial) · 2026: 0.78 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-31
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 259 m USD 86% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 3 m USD 0.0% of today's market value
  • Share count +31.5% in FY2025 12 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 263 m USD · 69% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Real estate in US: −2.0% week · −5.5% month · −2.2% quarter · −1.3% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLRE.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is CareTrust REIT Inc. (CTRE)?

CareTrust REIT Inc. trades as CTRE on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Real Estate in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is CTRE in a Closelook index?

Not currently — CareTrust REIT Inc. is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is CareTrust REIT Inc.'s Closelook composite score?

56 out of 100, with momentum 47, quality 72 and valuation 39 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does CTRE trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -6.7% vs the 50-day and -2.7% vs the 200-day average, 13.9% below the 52-week high and +17.9% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does CareTrust REIT Inc. do?

CareTrust REIT owns, buys, develops and leases nursing homes, senior-housing communities and other healthcare properties, then rents them out under long-term leases. Its holdings span the United States and reach into the United Kingdom, and it grows both by adding sites and by improving those it already holds. It is based in Dana Point, California, and runs its own operations rather than handing them to an outside manager. Closelook's peer group for CareTrust gathers scored real-estate names sharing its sector and country, among them CoStar Group, Ke Holdings, American Healthcare REIT, Vivmark Residential and Agree Realty; the market also sets it against Ventas, another healthcare-property landlord.

Where does CareTrust REIT Inc. sit in the AI build-out?

CareTrust carries no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index; it sits instead in the Real Estate sector of the wider Closelook universe, within healthcare-facility REITs, landlords whose tenants run nursing and senior-housing sites rather than build technology infrastructure. It carries a Closelook score, with quality the strongest module and valuation the weakest; it holds no seat in Rubin or Halo, and the diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.

Does CareTrust REIT Inc. pay a dividend?

CareTrust REIT Inc. has paid 1.45 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 3.86% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.39 USD on 2026-06-30. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 259 m USD in dividends and bought back 3 m USD of its own shares, 69% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 31.5% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on CareTrust REIT Inc. recently?

The most recent analyst action on CareTrust REIT Inc. on the Closelook wire is a price target by Wells Fargo on 2026-09-01 (target 44 from 47). 1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelook readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for CTRE, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then REIT - Healthcare Facilities, then Real Estate. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.