NYSE:DVA - Davita Stock Price, Forecast & News

Davita trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "DVA."

Davita Inc (NYSE:DVA) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, November, 5th. The company reported $1.53 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.24 by $0.29. The firm earned $2.90 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.85 billion. Davita had a net margin of 3.68% and a return on equity of 19.95%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 2.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.56 EPS. View Davita's Earnings History.

Davita is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 12th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Davita.

Davita updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Tuesday, November, 5th. The company provided EPS guidance of $5.25-5.75 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $5.32.

9 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for Davita's stock. Their forecasts range from $57.00 to $80.00. On average, they expect Davita's share price to reach $66.17 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 16.7%. View Analyst Price Targets for Davita.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Davita in the last year. There are currently 8 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Davita.

News coverage about DVA stock has trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog 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. Davita earned a coverage optimism score of 1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Davita.

Davita saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 8,180,000 shares, an increase of 6.6% from the November 28th total of 7,670,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,560,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.2 days. Approximately 6.5% of the company's shares are short sold. View Davita's Current Options Chain.

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Davita's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.47%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.12%), Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.03%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.02%), Baxter Bros Inc. (0.02%) and Baxter Bros Inc. (0.02%). Company insiders that own Davita stock include Charles Berg, Pamela M Arway and William L Roper. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Davita.

DVA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Stonebridge Capital Management Inc., CenturyLink Investment Management Co, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, IFM Investors Pty Ltd and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System. View Insider Buying and Selling for Davita.

DVA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, Baxter Bros Inc., Baxter Bros Inc., Calamos Advisors LLC, First Hawaiian Bank, Camelot Portfolios LLC and DNB Asset Management AS. View Insider Buying and Selling for Davita.

Shares of DVA 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 DVA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $79.47.

Davita has a market capitalization of $10.18 billion and generates $11.40 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $159.39 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.57 on an earnings per share basis. Davita employs 77,700 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Davita.

The official website for Davita is http://www.davita.com/.

Davita's mailing address is 2000 16TH STREET, DENVER CO, 80202. The company can be reached via phone at 720-631-2100 or via email at [email protected]