Bausch Health Companies - BHC Stock Forecast, Price & News

4 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bausch Health Companies in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" BHC shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BHC, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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4 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for Bausch Health Companies' stock. Their BHC share price forecasts range from $6.00 to $15.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $10.60 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 41.9% from the stock's current price.
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Bausch Health Companies' stock was trading at $6.28 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, BHC shares have increased by 18.9% and is now trading at $7.47.
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Bausch Health Companies saw a increase in short interest during the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 27,480,000 shares, an increase of 15.8% from the February 13th total of 23,740,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 5,710,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.8 days. Approximately 7.7% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 9th 2023.
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Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE:BHC) released its earnings results on Monday, August, 2nd. The company reported $0.97 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.95 by $0.02. The business had revenue of $2.10 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.12 billion. Bausch Health Companies had a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 553.04% and a negative net margin of 2.77%.

Bausch Health Companies updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 23rd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.45 billion-$4.60 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $8.31 billion.

43 employees have rated Bausch Health Companies Chief Executive Officer Joseph C. Papa on Glassdoor.com. Joseph C. Papa has an approval rating of 97% among the company's employees. This puts Joseph C. Papa in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Bausch Health Companies trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BHC."

Bausch Health Companies' stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Goldentree Asset Management LP (5.88%), Franklin Resources Inc. (4.89%), Natixis (4.37%), National Bank of Canada FI (3.63%), Laurion Capital Management LP (2.88%) and Lombard Odier Asset Management USA Corp (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Amy B Wechsler, Christina Ackermann, Holdings LP Valueact, John Paulson, Joseph F Gordon, Robert Spurr, Russell Barrans, Sam Eldessouky, Schutter Richard U De, Seana Carson, Steven D Miller and William D Humphries.
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One share of BHC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $7.47.

Bausch Health Companies (NYSE:BHC) has a market capitalization of $2.70 billion and generates $8.12 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $-225,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.62) on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 19,900 workers across the globe.

Bausch Health Companies' mailing address is 2150 ST. ELZEAR BLVD. WEST, LAVAL A8, H7L 4A8. The official website for the company is www.bauschhealth.com. The company can be reached via phone at (514) 744-6792, via email at ir@bauschhealth.com, or via fax at 514-744-6272.