NASDAQ:HMSY - HMS Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

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

HMS is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 28th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for HMS.

10 brokers have issued 12 month target prices for HMS's stock. 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 44.2% 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.

News coverage about HMSY stock has trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. HMS earned a daily sentiment score of 0.7 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 news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for HMS.

HMS saw a decrease in short interest in December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 3,120,000 shares, a decrease of 11.6% from the November 28th total of 3,530,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 629,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.0 days. Approximately 3.6% of the company's stock are sold short. View HMS's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to HMS include Cerner (CERN), Omnicell (OMCL), Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (MDRX), Cortexyme (CRTX), 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 Intel (INTC), Netflix (NFLX), General Electric (GE), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Alibaba Group (BABA), Walt Disney (DIS), AT&T (T), Twitter (TWTR) and Visa (V).

HMS's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Scout Investments Inc. (0.23%), DNB Asset Management AS (0.19%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.08%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.03%), Clean Yield Group (0.02%) and Sciencast Management LP (0.01%). 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 Scout Investments Inc., Louisiana State Employees Retirement System and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including DNB Asset Management AS, Clean Yield Group, Sciencast Management LP and FNY Investment Advisers LLC. 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 $28.73.

HMS has a market capitalization of $2.53 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]