SEC Form 4 · accession 0000740260-18-000112

Ventas, Inc. · VTR

Statement of changes in beneficial ownership, as filed. Original on EDGAR ↗

Reporting owner

Officer — Chairman and CEO · Director

Period of report

May 30, 2018

Accepted (ET)

May 31, 2018 · 4:38 pm EDT

Rule 10b5-1 plan

unknown — predates the checkbox

Issuer CIK

0000740260

Table I — non-derivative securities

Security	Date	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Owned after	D/I	Nature of ownership
Common Stock	May 30, 2018	M	15,439	$37.51	A	759,606	D
Common Stock^F1	May 30, 2018	S	15,439	$55.0019	D	744,167	D
Common Stock	holding	—	—		—	5,000	I	By Trust

Security	Conv. / exercise price	Date	Code	Shares	A/D	Exercisable	Expires	Underlying	Underlying shares	Owned after	D/I
Stock Option (Right to Buy)^F2	$37.51	May 30, 2018	M	15,439	D	Jan 20, 2010	Jan 20, 2020	Common Stock	15,439	2,644,476	D

F1On May 14, 2018, the Reporting Person transmitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form 144 covering the sale of the Issuer's common stock reported in Table I. The shares are being sold pursuant to a written non-discretionary 10b5-1 sales plan dated May 10, 2018 entered into by Reporting Person. The price reported in column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold by the Reporting Person in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $55.00 to $55.02, inclusive. The Reporting Person undertakes to provide Issuer, any security holder of Issuer or the staff of the SEC, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in this footnote (1).
F2These options were part of a previously reported grant by the Issuer to the Reporting Person which vested in three equal annual installments beginning on January 20, 2010.