NYSE:CYHCommunity Health Systems Stock Price, Forecast & News

Community Health Systems' stock was trading at $3.56 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, CYH stock has decreased by 8.7% and is now trading at $3.25. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Community Health Systems in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 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) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April, 28th. The company reported ($1.59) EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.57) by $1.02. The firm had revenue of $3.03 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.17 billion. The company's quarterly revenue was down 10.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company posted ($0.53) EPS. View Community Health Systems' earnings history.

5 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Community Health Systems' shares. Their forecasts range from $3.00 to $8.00. On average, they expect Community Health Systems' share price to reach $5.38 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 65.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Community Health Systems.

Media stories about CYH stock have been trending extremely negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Community Health Systems earned a media sentiment score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutCommunity Health Systems.

Community Health Systems saw a drop in short interest in the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 16,960,000 shares, a drop of 9.8% from the April 15th total of 18,800,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,330,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.1 days. Currently, 15.0% of the shares of the stock 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 a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (13.69%), State Street Corp (2.75%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2.31%), Invesco Ltd. (1.91%), Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. (1.68%) and Saba Capital Management L.P. (1.43%). 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 sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Saba Capital Management L.P., Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd., BlackRock Inc., Spark Investment Management LLC, Morgan Stanley, KBC Group NV, Invesco Ltd., and Public Sector Pension Investment Board. View insider buying and selling activity for Community Health Systems.

CYH stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Centerbridge Partners L.P., Two Sigma Advisers LP, AQR Capital Management LLC, State Street Corp, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Strs Ohio, and Engineers Gate Manager LP. 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 $3.25.

Community Health Systems has a market capitalization of $388.93 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]