NYSE:CYHCommunity Health Systems Stock Price, Forecast & News

Community Health Systems' stock was trading at $3.56 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, CYH stock has decreased by 15.2% and is now trading at $3.02. 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) posted its quarterly earnings results 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 company earned $3.03 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.17 billion. Community Health Systems's quarterly revenue was down 10.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted ($0.53) earnings per share. View Community Health Systems' earnings history.

6 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for Community Health Systems' stock. Their forecasts range from $3.00 to $8.00. On average, they expect Community Health Systems' stock price to reach $5.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 65.6% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Community Health Systems.

Media coverage about CYH stock has trended negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Community Health Systems earned a news sentiment score of -2.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View the latest news about Community Health Systems.

Community Health Systems saw a decline in short interest during the month of June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 13,610,000 shares, a decline of 9.3% from the May 31st total of 15,000,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,560,000 shares, the days-to-cover 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."

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 $3.02.

Community Health Systems has a market capitalization of $361.40 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]