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. Since then, CYH shares have decreased by 11.5% and is now trading at $3.15. 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) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April, 28th. The company reported ($1.59) earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.57) by $1.02. The business earned $3.03 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.17 billion. The company's revenue was down 10.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company posted ($0.53) earnings per share. View Community Health Systems' earnings history.

5 analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Community Health Systems' shares. Their forecasts range from $3.00 to $8.00. On average, they anticipate Community Health Systems' share price to reach $5.38 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 70.6% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Community Health Systems.

News stories about CYH stock have trended very negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Community Health Systems earned a media sentiment score of -3.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 9.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutCommunity Health Systems.

Community Health Systems saw a decrease in short interest in April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 16,960,000 shares, a decrease of 9.8% from the April 15th total of 18,800,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 3,330,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.1 days. Currently, 15.0% 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 a number of institutional and retail 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 acquired 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 $3.15.

Community Health Systems has a market capitalization of $376.96 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]