NYSE:CVS - CVS Health Stock Price, News & Analysis

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

CVS Health announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 10th. Investors of record on Thursday, July 25th will be given a dividend of $0.50 per share on Friday, August 2nd. This represents a $2.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.16%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, July 24th. View CVS Health's Dividend History.

CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) released its earnings results on Wednesday, August, 7th. The pharmacy operator reported $1.89 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.70 by $0.19. The pharmacy operator had revenue of $63.43 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $62.66 billion. CVS Health had a return on equity of 16.15% and a net margin of 1.91%. The firm's revenue was up 35.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.69 earnings per share. View CVS Health's Earnings History.

CVS Health is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 5th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for CVS Health.

CVS Health issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, August, 7th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $6.89-7.00 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $6.84.

27 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for CVS Health's shares. Their predictions range from $61.00 to $100.00. On average, they anticipate CVS Health's share price to reach $75.9130 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 20.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for CVS Health.

27 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for CVS Health in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings, 18 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for CVS Health.

News coverage about CVS stock has trended negative on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. CVS Health earned a media sentiment score of -2.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the pharmacy operator a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for CVS Health.

Some companies that are related to CVS Health include Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Covetrus (CVET), Diplomat Pharmacy (DPLO), 111 (YI), Rite Aid (RAD), Petmed Express (PETS), China Jo-Jo Drugstores (CJJD), HealthWarehouse.com (HEWA) and Dougherty's Pharmacy (MYDP).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other CVS Health investors own include AT&T (T), Walt Disney (DIS), Cisco Systems (CSCO), NVIDIA (NVDA), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Alibaba Group (BABA), Verizon Communications (VZ), Intel (INTC), Home Depot (HD) and Bank of America (BAC).

CVS Health's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (7.87%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (1.43%), Northern Trust Corp (1.41%), Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (1.31%), Morgan Stanley (1.06%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.05%). Company insiders that own CVS Health stock include C David Brown II, David M Denton, David W Dorman, Edward J Ludwig, Eva C Boratto, Helena Foulkes, James David Clark, Jonathan C Roberts, Kevin Hourican, Larry J Merlo, Lisa Bisaccia, Thomas M Moriarty and Troyen A Brennan. View Institutional Ownership Trends for CVS Health.

CVS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Parnassus Investments CA, CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, Boston Partners, Prudential Financial Inc., UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp and Pictet Asset Management Ltd.. Company insiders that have sold CVS Health company stock in the last year include David M Denton, Eva C Boratto, James David Clark, Jonathan C Roberts, Larry J Merlo, Lisa Bisaccia and Troyen A Brennan. View Insider Buying and Selling for CVS Health.

CVS stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Morgan Stanley, Prudential PLC, Vanguard Group Inc., Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC, Poplar Forest Capital LLC, Invesco Ltd. and LSV Asset Management. Company insiders that have bought CVS Health stock in the last two years include C David Brown II, David W Dorman and Edward J Ludwig. View Insider Buying and Selling for CVS Health.

Shares of CVS 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 CVS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $63.26.

CVS Health has a market capitalization of $82.27 billion and generates $194.58 billion in revenue each year. The pharmacy operator earns $-594,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $7.08 on an earnings per share basis. CVS Health employs 295,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About CVS Health.

The official website for CVS Health is http://www.cvshealth.com/.

CVS Health's mailing address is ONE CVS DR., WOONSOCKET RI, 02895. The pharmacy operator can be reached via phone at 401-765-1500 or via email at [email protected]