NASDAQ:HMSYHMS Stock Price, Forecast & News

HMS's stock was trading at $21.41 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, HMSY stock has increased by 53.9% and is now trading at $32.94. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for HMS in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for HMS.

HMS is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, August 7th 2020. View our earnings forecast for HMS.

HMS Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:HMSY) released its earnings results on Friday, May, 8th. The business services provider reported $0.32 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.25 by $0.07. The business services provider had revenue of $171.40 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $162.32 million. HMS had a net margin of 12.35% and a return on equity of 11.47%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 15.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.35 EPS. View HMS's earnings history.

HMS updated its FY 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Friday, May, 8th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $690-705 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $704.18 million.

7 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for HMS's stock. Their forecasts range from $27.00 to $50.00. On average, they anticipate HMS's stock price to reach $37.29 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 13.2% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for HMS.

Headlines about HMSY stock have been trending somewhat positive on Friday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. HMS earned a news sentiment score of 0.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the business services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View the latest news about HMS.

HMS saw a increase in short interest in June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,070,000 shares, an increase of 9.5% from the May 31st total of 1,890,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 784,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.6 days. Approximately 2.4% of the shares of the company are sold short. View HMS's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to HMS include Cerner (CERN), Omnicell (OMCL), Cortexyme (CRTX), Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (MDRX), HealthStream (HSTM), Vocera Communications (VCRA) and Computer Programs & Systems (CPSI). View all competitors.

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HMS trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "HMSY."

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One share of HMSY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $32.94.

HMS has a market capitalization of $2.91 billion and generates $626.40 million in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $87.22 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.15 on an earnings per share basis. HMS employs 3,100 workers across the globe.

The official website for HMS is www.hms.com.

HMS's mailing address is 5615 High Point Drive, Irving TX, 75038. The business services provider can be reached via phone at 214-453-3000 or via email at [email protected]