Acadia Healthcare - ACHC Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Acadia Healthcare in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" ACHC shares.
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6 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Acadia Healthcare's stock. Their ACHC share price forecasts range from $72.00 to $103.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $86.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 5.0% from the stock's current price.
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Acadia Healthcare's stock was trading at $60.70 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, ACHC shares have increased by 35.0% and is now trading at $81.94.
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Acadia Healthcare saw a drop in short interest in 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 daily trading volume, of 626,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.9 days. Currently, 4.2% of the shares of the stock 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) released its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 27th. The company reported $0.72 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting 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%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 29.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.68 earnings per share.

Acadia Healthcare updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Wednesday, December, 7th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.10-$3.45 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.33. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.79 billion-$2.86 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.82 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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors 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 $81.94.

Acadia Healthcare (NASDAQ:ACHC) has a market capitalization of $7.45 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.