Evolent Health Inc (NYSE: EVH): How Can A Stock Be Down -0.44% Year To Date, But Still Loser

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Evolent Health Inc (NYSE:EVH)’s traded shares stood at 2.15 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.54. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $32.88, to imply an increase of 2.48% or $0.79 in intraday trading. The EVH share’s 52-week high remains $35.00, putting it -6.45% down since that peak but still an impressive 45.32% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $17.98. The company has a valuation of $3.82B, with an average of 4.51 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 2.45 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Evolent Health Inc (EVH), translating to a mean rating of 1.07. Of 5 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give EVH a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 0 advise Hold as 5 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.34.

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Evolent Health Inc (NYSE:EVH) trade information

After registering a 2.48% upside in the latest session, Evolent Health Inc (EVH) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 20.11%, and 48.20% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -0.44%. Short interest in Evolent Health Inc (NYSE:EVH) saw shorts transact 14.33 million shares and set a 5.8 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $33 and $51 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, EVH has been trading -55.11% off suggested target high and -0.36% from its likely low.

Evolent Health Inc (EVH) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing Evolent Health Inc share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has outperformed competitors. Evolent Health Inc (EVH) shares are -3.48% down over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate higher than industry average at 54.02% against 19.00%. Revenue is forecast to grow 13.30% this quarter before jumping 65.20% for the next one. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 31.30% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 13 analysts is 628.26M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 13 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 662.3M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 509.24M and 556.05M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 23.40% before jumping 19.10% in the following quarter.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings shrunk an estimated -13.43% for the past 5-year period. While 2024 is set for a 20.74% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 30.00% annually.

EVH Dividends

Evolent Health Inc has its next earnings report out on 2024-Oct-31. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.

Evolent Health Inc (NYSE:EVH)’s Major holders

Evolent Health Inc insiders hold 4.03% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 115.84% of the shares at 120.70% float percentage. In total, 115.84% institutions holds shares in the company, led by WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 11.17 million shares (or 9.785% of shares), all amounting to roughly $213.55 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 11.06 million shares, or about 9.6862% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $211.39 million.