NASDAQ:HMSY - HMS Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

HMS Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:HMSY) posted its quarterly earnings data on Friday, November, 1st. The business services provider reported $0.30 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.28 by $0.02. The business services provider had revenue of $146.82 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $165.79 million. HMS had a net margin of 16.69% and a return on equity of 14.28%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.28 EPS. View HMS's Earnings History.

HMS is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 21st 2020. View Earnings Estimates for HMS.

HMS will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, February 21st at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

10 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for HMS's shares. Their forecasts range from $31.86 to $50.00. On average, they expect HMS's share price to reach $41.43 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 46.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for HMS.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for HMS in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for HMS.

Media headlines about HMSY stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. HMS earned a media sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the business services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for HMS.

HMS saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,880,000 shares, a drop of 9.1% from the January 15th total of 3,170,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 656,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.4 days. Currently, 3.3% of the company's stock are short sold. 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).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other HMS investors own include AT&T (T), Netflix (NFLX), Walt Disney (DIS), General Electric (GE), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Twitter (TWTR), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intel (INTC), AbbVie (ABBV) and Alibaba Group (BABA).

HMS's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (2.89%), American Capital Management Inc. (2.59%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (1.81%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.65%), FMR LLC (1.36%) and Palisade Capital Management LLC NJ (1.18%). Company insiders that own HMS stock include Bart M Schwartz, Cora M Tellez, Cynthia Nustad, Douglas M Williams, Ellen A Rudnick, Greg D Aunan, Jeffrey Scott Sherman, Meredith W Bjorck, Richard H Stowe, Robert Becker, Semone Neuman, Teresa South, William C Lucia and William F Miller III. View Institutional Ownership Trends for HMS.

HMSY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Redwood Investments LLC, AQR Capital Management LLC, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Axiom International Investors LLC DE, Cipher Capital LP, Mackay Shields LLC and Acadian Asset Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold HMS company stock in the last year include Bart M Schwartz, Douglas M Williams, Greg D Aunan, Jeffrey Scott Sherman, Meredith W Bjorck, Richard H Stowe, Robert Becker, Teresa South, William C Lucia and William F Miller III. View Insider Buying and Selling for HMS.

HMSY stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Marshall Wace North America L.P., Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Sectoral Asset Management Inc, DNB Asset Management AS, Bank of Montreal Can, Point72 Asset Management L.P. and UBS Group AG. View Insider Buying and Selling for HMS.

Shares of HMSY 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 HMSY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $28.22.

HMS has a market capitalization of $2.49 billion and generates $598.29 million in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $54.99 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.84 on an earnings per share basis. HMS employs 2,500 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About HMS.

The official website for HMS is http://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]