Amedisys Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:AMED)

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Amedisys in the last year. There are currently 9 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" AMED shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in AMED, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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11 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Amedisys' shares. Their AMED share price targets range from $81.00 to $125.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $103.55 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 10.6% from the stock's current price.
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Amedisys' stock was trading at $83.54 at the start of the year. Since then, AMED shares have increased by 12.0% and is now trading at $93.58.
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Amedisys saw a decline in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,470,000 shares, a decline of 5.7% from the October 31st total of 2,620,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 371,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 6.7 days. Currently, 7.8% 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 Wednesday, February 21st 2024.
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Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMED) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, October, 24th. The health services provider reported $0.98 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.08 by $0.10. The health services provider had revenue of $556.24 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $560.23 million. Amedisys had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 13.45% and a net margin of 0.12%. The business's quarterly revenue was down .3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $1.15 EPS.

ETFs with the largest weight of Amedisys (NASDAQ:AMED) stock in their portfolio include First Trust Merger Arbitrage ETF (MARB), SRH U.S. Quality ETF (SRHQ), SPDR S&P Health Care Services ETF (XHS) and IQ Merger Arbitrage ETF (MNA).iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF (IHF).

478 employees have rated Amedisys Chief Executive Officer Paul B. Kusserow on Glassdoor.com. Paul B. Kusserow has an approval rating of 79% among the company's employees. 60.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Amedisys to a friend.

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Amedisys' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Pentwater Capital Management LP (3.51%), Alpine Associates Management Inc. (3.17%), Mackenzie Financial Corp (2.88%), Westchester Capital Management LLC (2.61%), Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management N.V. (1.28%) and Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo & Co. LLC (0.97%). Insiders that own company stock include Bruce D Perkins, Christopher Gerard, David L Kemmerly, David L Kemmerly, Denise M Bohnert, Michael Paul North, Richard A Lechleiter and Scott G Ginn.
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