NASDAQ:PRAH - PRA Health Sciences Stock Price, Forecast & News

PRA Health Sciences trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PRAH."

PRA Health Sciences Inc (NASDAQ:PRAH) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 20th. The medical research company reported $1.54 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.32 by $0.22. The medical research company had revenue of $800.24 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $794.91 million. PRA Health Sciences had a net margin of 7.93% and a return on equity of 28.62%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 9.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.31 earnings per share. View PRA Health Sciences' Earnings History.

PRA Health Sciences is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for PRA Health Sciences.

PRA Health Sciences updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 20th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $5.77-5.97 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $5.81. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.23-3.36 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.32 billion.

10 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for PRA Health Sciences' shares. Their forecasts range from $100.00 to $128.00. On average, they anticipate PRA Health Sciences' stock price to reach $117.11 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 9.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PRA Health Sciences.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PRA Health Sciences in the last year. There are currently 6 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PRA Health Sciences.

Media stories about PRAH stock have trended very positive on Sunday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. PRA Health Sciences earned a news impact score of 4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the medical research company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for PRA Health Sciences.

PRA Health Sciences saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,460,000 shares, an increase of 17.7% from the January 15th total of 2,090,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 523,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.7 days. Approximately 3.9% of the company's shares are sold short. View PRA Health Sciences' Current Options Chain.

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(PRAH) raised $306 million in an initial public offering on Thursday, November 13th 2014. The company issued 17,000,000 shares at a price of $18.00 per share. Jefferies, Citigroup, KKR, UBS Investment Bank, Credit Suisse and Wells Fargo Securities acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Baird and William Blair were co-managers.

PRA Health Sciences' stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Capital Research Global Investors (4.07%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (3.10%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (2.70%), State Street Corp (2.27%), Pendal Group Ltd (1.52%) and Standard Life Aberdeen plc (1.23%). Company insiders that own PRA Health Sciences stock include Fund Holdings LP Kkr and Pra Investors LP Kkr. View Institutional Ownership Trends for PRA Health Sciences.

PRAH stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Standard Life Aberdeen plc, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, AQR Capital Management LLC, Pictet Asset Management Ltd., Capital Research Global Investors, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Acadian Asset Management LLC and Strs Ohio. View Insider Buying and Selling for PRA Health Sciences.

PRAH stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Captrust Financial Advisors, FMR LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Mackay Shields LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A. and Franklin Resources Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for PRA Health Sciences.

Shares of PRAH 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 PRAH stock can currently be purchased for approximately $107.09.

PRA Health Sciences has a market capitalization of $6.77 billion and generates $3.07 billion in revenue each year. The medical research company earns $153.90 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.80 on an earnings per share basis. PRA Health Sciences employs 16,400 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About PRA Health Sciences.

The official website for PRA Health Sciences is http://www.prahs.com/.

PRA Health Sciences' mailing address is 4130 PARKLAKE AVENUE SUITE 400, RALEIGH NC, 27612. The medical research company can be reached via phone at 919-786-8200 or via email at [email protected]