NASDAQ:ACHC - Acadia Healthcare Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Acadia Healthcare Company Inc (NASDAQ:ACHC) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 5th. The company reported $0.52 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.55 by $0.03. The business earned $777.25 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $790.39 million. Acadia Healthcare had a positive return on equity of 7.31% and a negative net margin of 6.88%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 2.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.55 EPS. View Acadia Healthcare's Earnings History.

Acadia Healthcare is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Acadia Healthcare.

Acadia Healthcare updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, November, 5th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.00-2.05 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.15. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.100-3.125 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.14 billion.

10 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for Acadia Healthcare's shares. Their forecasts range from $27.00 to $45.00. On average, they anticipate Acadia Healthcare's stock price to reach $35.90 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 10.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Acadia Healthcare.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Acadia Healthcare in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Acadia Healthcare.

News stories about ACHC stock have been trending positive this week, according to InfoTrie. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Acadia Healthcare earned a news sentiment score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Acadia Healthcare.

Acadia Healthcare saw a drop in short interest in December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 11,310,000 shares, a drop of 7.4% from the November 28th total of 12,220,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 675,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 16.7 days. Currently, 13.1% of the company's stock are short sold. View Acadia Healthcare's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Acadia Healthcare include HCA Healthcare (HCA), Universal Health Services (UHS), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Select Medical (SEM), The Ensign Group (ENSG), U.S. Physical Therapy (USPH), National HealthCare (NHC), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), Hanger (HNGR), Community Health Systems (CYH), Capital Senior Living (CSU), Five Star Senior Living (FVE) and Encompass Health (EHC).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Acadia Healthcare investors own include Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Endologix (ELGX), American Airlines Group (AAL), Apache (APA), Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Broadcom (AVGO), Athabasca Oil (ATH), Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (ANW), Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Colfax (CFX).

Acadia Healthcare's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include California Public Employees Retirement System (0.32%), Arizona State Retirement System (0.06%), State of Michigan Retirement System (0.03%), Strs Ohio (0.02%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%) and Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC (0.01%). Company insiders that own Acadia Healthcare stock include Debra K Osteen, Randall P Goldberg and Reeve B Waud. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Acadia Healthcare.

ACHC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Arizona State Retirement System, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank . View Insider Buying and Selling for Acadia Healthcare.

ACHC stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including California Public Employees Retirement System, Strs Ohio, Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC, AE Wealth Management LLC, New York State Teachers Retirement System, Dupont Capital Management Corp, Sciencast Management LP and State of Michigan Retirement System. View Insider Buying and Selling for Acadia Healthcare.

Shares of ACHC can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ACHC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $32.49.

Acadia Healthcare has a market capitalization of $2.88 billion and generates $3.01 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $-175,750,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $2.24 on an earnings per share basis. Acadia Healthcare employs 42,100 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Acadia Healthcare.

The official website for Acadia Healthcare is http://www.acadiahealthcare.com/.

Acadia Healthcare's mailing address is 6100 TOWER CIRCLE SUITE 1000, FRANKLIN TN, 37067. The company can be reached via phone at 615-861-6000.