During the recent session, Community Health Systems, Inc (NYSE:CYH)’s traded shares were 0.5 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.60. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $3.52, reflecting an intraday loss of -6.25% or -$0.23. The 52-week high for the CYH share is $6.29, that puts it down -78.69 from that peak though still a striking 34.38% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $2.31. The company’s market capitalization is $488.52M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 1.87 million shares, and the average trade volume was 1.66 million shares over the past three months.

Community Health Systems, Inc (CYH) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.56. CYH has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 4 analysts who have looked at this stock. 1 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 3 recommend a Buy rating for it.

Community Health Systems, Inc (NYSE:CYH) trade information

Community Health Systems, Inc (CYH) registered a -6.25% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -6.25% in intraday trading to $3.52, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -8.44%, and it has moved by -17.28% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 19.99%. The short interest in Community Health Systems, Inc (NYSE:CYH) is 7.5 million shares and it means that shorts have 3.78 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $10, which implies an increase of 64.8% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $5 and $19 respectively. As a result, CYH is trading at a discount of -439.77% off the target high and -42.05% off the low.

Community Health Systems, Inc (CYH) estimates and forecasts

Statistics show that Community Health Systems, Inc has outperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Community Health Systems, Inc (CYH) shares have gone down -1.79% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate more than the industry average at 65.47% against 32.00.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 31.96%. While earnings are projected to return 63.57% in 2024, the next five years will return -7.95% per annum.

CYH Dividends

Community Health Systems, Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in December. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

Community Health Systems, Inc (NYSE:CYH)’s Major holders

Community Health Systems, Inc insiders own 8.19% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 79.40%, with the float percentage being 86.49%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 259.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 9.36 million shares (or 7.132% of all shares), a total value of $31.46 million in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 9.08 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 6.9197% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $30.52 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Community Health Systems, Inc (CYH) shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF. Data provided on Jun 30, 2024 indicates that Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 3.93 shares. This amounts to just over 2.83 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $14.03 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 3.25, or about 2.34% of the stock, which is worth about $11.59 million.