Senior Housing Properties Trust Offers 6 Million Common Shares to Public

Senior Housing Properties Trust (NYSE:SNH) recently announced the public offering of six million common shares. SNH intends to put the proceeds of this offering toward repaying outstanding amounts from its revolving credit facility and for general business purposes, including funding acquisitions. Underwriters may also be granted a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional […]

Omnicare Q2 Results Up on Strong Cash Flows

Omnicare, Inc. (NYSE:OCR) reported its second quarter results that show an increase in its GAAP net income to .32 per share versus .20 per share for the same period in 2011 and an adjusted EBITDA of $146.3 million compared to $144.5 million in Q2 2011. Omnicare’s cash flow from continuing operations during Q2 saw a […]

Movers and Shakers – People and Positions for July 21, 2011

Summer’s heating up and so are positions in the senior living field. Are you looking to find top industry talent?  Look no further than SHN’s senior housing jobs board that has all types of senior living jobs from sales and marketing, operations and executive level offerings from across the United States. But in the meantime, […]

Equity Lifestyle Q2 Earnings Up, Works on Closing $1.43 Billion Acquisition

Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. (NYSE: ELS) announced its results for the quarter ending June 30, 2011that shows net income available to common stockholders totaled $6.8 million for the quarter compared to $6.0 million for the same period in 2010.  ELS had Funds From Operations (“FFO”) of $27.3 million for the quarter compared to $27.1 million for […]

Is Senior Housing the Next “Big Short”?

Summertime is shorts weather, but we’re not talking about the “Bermuda” type. In the spirit of summer reading, I just finished “The Big Short” by Michael Lewis, author of the books “Liar’s Poker” and “The Blind Side.” For those who have not read “The Big Short”, it examines different business people taking short positions against the subprime […]