Acadia Healthcare - ACHC Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Acadia Healthcare in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" ACHC shares.
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6 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Acadia Healthcare's shares. Their ACHC share price forecasts range from $72.00 to $103.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $86.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.5% from the stock's current price.
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Acadia Healthcare's stock was trading at $60.70 at the start of the year. Since then, ACHC shares have increased by 39.6% and is now trading at $84.71.
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Acadia Healthcare saw a drop in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,710,000 shares, a drop of 11.0% from the October 31st total of 4,170,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 626,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.9 days. Currently, 4.2% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, February 27th 2023.
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Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACHC) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 27th. The company reported $0.72 EPS for the quarter, meeting analysts' consensus estimates of $0.72. The company earned $587.60 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $591.42 million. Acadia Healthcare had a net margin of 11.16% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.34%. Acadia Healthcare's revenue for the quarter was down 29.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.68 earnings per share.

Acadia Healthcare updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Monday, November, 7th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.00-$3.10 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $3.08. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.58 billion-$2.60 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.59 billion.

41 employees have rated Acadia Healthcare Chief Executive Officer Debra K. Osteen on Glassdoor.com. Debra K. Osteen has an approval rating of 36% among the company's employees. This puts Debra K. Osteen in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Acadia Healthcare trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ACHC."

Acadia Healthcare's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (9.63%), BlackRock Inc. (8.49%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (5.33%), State Street Corp (2.69%), Fred Alger Management LLC (2.23%) and Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.20%). Insiders that own company stock include Christopher L Howard, David M Duckworth, John S Hollinsworth, Reeve B Waud, William Grieco and William M Petrie.
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Shares of ACHC stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of ACHC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $84.71.

Acadia Healthcare (NASDAQ:ACHC) has a market capitalization of $7.71 billion and generates $2.31 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $190.63 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.10 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 22,500 workers across the globe.

Acadia Healthcare's mailing address is 6100 TOWER CIRCLE SUITE 1000, FRANKLIN TN, 37067. The official website for the company is www.acadiahealthcare.com. The company can be reached via phone at (615) 861-6000 or via fax at 615-261-9685.