In the latest trading session,, 0.92 million Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:AVAH) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 2.03. With the company’s most recent per share price at $5.66 changing hands around $0.19 or 3.38% at last look, the market valuation stands at $1.10B. AVAH’s current price is a discount, trading about -9.36% off its 52-week high of $6.19. The share price had its 52-week low at $2.32, which suggests the last value was 59.01% up since then. When we look at Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 0.51 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 466.18K.
Analysts gave the Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc (AVAH) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Strong Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 3.25. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 3 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 1 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended AVAH as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:AVAH) trade information
Instantly AVAH is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 2.26%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 23.74%, with the 5-day performance at 2.26% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:AVAH) is 4.72% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 1.69 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 4.61 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 5, meaning bulls need a downside of -13.2% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, AVAH’s forecast low is 2 with 6 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -6.01% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 64.66% for it to hit the projected low.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 32.73%. The 2025 estimates are for Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc earnings to increase by 245.58%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 68.48% per year.
AVAH Dividends
Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-May-07.
Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:AVAH)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 5.51% of Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc shares while 83.53% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 88.40%. There are 83.53% institutions holding the Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc stock share, with BAIN CAPITAL INVESTORS LLC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 42.3681% of the shares, roughly 81.6 million AVAH shares worth $225.22 million.
J.H. WHITNEY EQUITY PARTNERS VII, LLC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 25.2627% or 48.66 million shares worth $134.29 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF . With 1.52 shares estimated at $8.77 million under it, the former controlled 0.78% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 0.65% of the shares, roughly 1.26 shares worth around $7.3 million.
