NYSE:CYHCommunity Health Systems Stock Price, Forecast & News

Community Health Systems' stock was trading at $3.56 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, CYH stock has decreased by 16.3% and is now trading at $2.98. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Community Health Systems in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Community Health Systems.

Community Health Systems is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, August 3rd 2020. View our earnings forecast for Community Health Systems.

Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April, 28th. The company reported ($1.59) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($0.57) by $1.02. The business earned $3.03 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.17 billion. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 10.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted ($0.53) earnings per share. View Community Health Systems' earnings history.

6 analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Community Health Systems' stock. Their forecasts range from $3.00 to $8.00. On average, they expect Community Health Systems' share price to reach $5.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 67.8% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Community Health Systems.

Headlines about CYH stock have been trending negative recently, according to InfoTrie. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Community Health Systems earned a coverage optimism score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news about Community Health Systems.

Community Health Systems saw a decrease in short interest in the month of June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 13,610,000 shares, a decrease of 9.3% from the May 31st total of 15,000,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,560,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.3 days. Approximately 12.1% of the company's shares are sold short. View Community Health Systems' Current Options Chain.

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

Community Health Systems' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Red Door Wealth Management LLC (0.02%). Company insiders that own Community Health Systems stock include Benjamin C Fordham, James S Ely III, Michael Dinkins, Patton Paul Smith, Thomas J Aaron and Wayne T Smith. View institutional ownership trends for Community Health Systems.

CYH stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Red Door Wealth Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought Community Health Systems stock in the last two years include Benjamin C Fordham, James S Ely III, Michael Dinkins, Patton Paul Smith, Thomas J Aaron, and Wayne T Smith. View insider buying and selling activity for Community Health Systems.

Shares of CYH 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 CYH stock can currently be purchased for approximately $2.98.

Community Health Systems has a market capitalization of $356.62 million and generates $13.21 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $-675,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.89) on an earnings per share basis. Community Health Systems employs 80,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Community Health Systems is www.chs.net.

Community Health Systems' mailing address is 4000 MERIDIAN BOULEVARD, FRANKLIN TN, 37067. The company can be reached via phone at 615-465-7000 or via email at [email protected]