Amedisys (AMED) Stock Forecast, Price & News

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Amedisys in the last twelve months. There are currently 10 hold ratings and 3 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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13 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for Amedisys' stock. Their AMED share price forecasts range from $81.00 to $165.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $109.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.8% 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 12.4% and is now trading at $93.90.
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Amedisys saw a increase in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,080,000 shares, an increase of 26.1% from the August 31st total of 1,650,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 445,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.7 days. Approximately 6.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 25th 2023.
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Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMED) released its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 26th. The health services provider reported $1.37 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.09 by $0.28. The health services provider had revenue of $552.97 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $568.18 million. Amedisys had a net margin of 0.10% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 14.00%. Amedisys's revenue for the quarter was down .9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.47 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 trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "AMED."

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One share of AMED stock can currently be purchased for approximately $93.90.

Amedisys (NASDAQ:AMED) has a market capitalization of $3.06 billion and generates $2.23 billion in revenue each year. The health services provider earns $118.61 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.07 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 20,000 workers across the globe.

Amedisys' mailing address is 3854 AMERICAN WAY SUITE A, BATON ROUGE LA, 70816. The official website for the company is www.amedisys.com. The health services provider can be reached via phone at (225) 292-2031, via email at ir@amedisys.com, or via fax at 225-292-8163.