NASDAQ:AMEDAmedisys Stock Price, Forecast & News

Amedisys' stock was trading at $170.47 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, AMED stock has increased by 16.5% and is now trading at $198.54. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Amedisys in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Amedisys.

Amedisys is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July 29th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Amedisys.

Amedisys Inc (NASDAQ:AMED) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May, 6th. The health services provider reported $1.05 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.97 by $0.08. The health services provider had revenue of $491.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $507.45 million. Amedisys had a return on equity of 23.09% and a net margin of 6.43%. Amedisys's revenue for the quarter was up 5.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $1.11 earnings per share. View Amedisys' earnings history.

14 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Amedisys' stock. Their forecasts range from $125.00 to $240.00. On average, they anticipate Amedisys' share price to reach $191.43 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.6%. View analysts' price targets for Amedisys.

News coverage about AMED stock has trended very negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Amedisys earned a coverage optimism score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the health services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news about Amedisys.

Amedisys saw a increase in short interest in June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,200,000 shares, an increase of 8.1% from the May 31st total of 1,110,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 318,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.8 days. Currently, 3.8% of the company's stock are short sold. View Amedisys' Current Options Chain.

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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 $198.54.

Amedisys has a market capitalization of $6.43 billion and generates $1.96 billion in revenue each year. The health services provider earns $126.83 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.40 on an earnings per share basis. Amedisys employs 21,300 workers across the globe.

The official website for Amedisys is www.amedisys.com.

Amedisys' mailing address is 3854 AMERICAN WAY SUITE A, BATON ROUGE LA, 70816. The health services provider can be reached via phone at 225-292-2031 or via email at [email protected]