During the last session, Community Health Systems, Inc (NYSE:CYH)’s traded shares were 1.5 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.73. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $2.77, reflecting an intraday loss of -1.42% or -$0.04. The 52-week high for the CYH share is $6.29, that puts it down -127.08 from that peak though still a striking 8.66% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $2.53. The company’s market capitalization is $388.88M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 1.81 million shares, and the average trade volume was 2.46 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 2.78. 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. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be -0.07.
Community Health Systems, Inc (NYSE:CYH) trade information
Community Health Systems, Inc (CYH) registered a -1.42% downside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -1.42% in intraday trading to $2.77, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 1.47%, and it has moved by -29.34% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -15.29%. The short interest in Community Health Systems, Inc (NYSE:CYH) is 13.56 million shares and it means that shorts have 4.07 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $10, which implies an increase of 72.3% 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 -585.92% off the target high and -80.51% off the low.
Community Health Systems, Inc (CYH) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will decrease -1.57% compared to the previous financial year.
As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 3.1B as predicted by 6 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 6 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 3.05B by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 3.14B and 3.14B respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -1.41% and then drop by -2.76% in the coming quarter.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 8.02%. While earnings are projected to return 90.61% in 2025.
CYH Dividends
Community Health Systems, Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Feb-17. 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 8.38% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 84.06%, with the float percentage being 91.74%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 251.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 9.36 million shares (or 7.0742% 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 Dec 31, 2024 indicates that Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 3.94 shares. This amounts to just over 2.81 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $10.91 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 3.44, or about 2.45% of the stock, which is worth about $9.52 million.
