Encompass Health - EHC Stock Forecast, Price & News

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Encompass Health in the last year. There are currently 8 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" EHC shares.
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9 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Encompass Health's shares. Their EHC share price forecasts range from $62.00 to $98.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $71.70 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 34.3% from the stock's current price.
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Encompass Health's stock was trading at $65.26 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, EHC shares have decreased by 18.2% and is now trading at $53.39.
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Encompass Health saw a increase in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,420,000 shares, an increase of 6.1% from the July 15th total of 2,280,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 889,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.7 days. Currently, 2.5% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 26th 2022.
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Encompass Health Co. (NYSE:EHC) posted its quarterly earnings results on Monday, August, 1st. The company reported $0.89 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.97 by $0.08. The company earned $1.33 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.34 billion. Encompass Health had a net margin of 6.22% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 16.20%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 3.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $1.17 earnings per share.

Encompass Health announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 20th. Stockholders of record on Monday, October 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.15 per share on Monday, October 17th. This represents a $0.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.12%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, September 30th.
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Encompass Health (NYSE:EHC) pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.11%. The dividend payout ratio is 34.25%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EHC will have a dividend payout ratio of 33.14% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Encompass Health issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Tuesday, August, 9th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.77-$2.91 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.96. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.25 billion-$4.30 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $5.38 billion.

231 employees have rated Encompass Health Chief Executive Officer Mark Tarr on Glassdoor.com. Mark Tarr has an approval rating of 79% among the company's employees.

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Encompass Health trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "EHC."

Encompass Health's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include JPMorgan Chase & Co. (3.03%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.15%), Glenview Capital Management LLC (1.38%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (1.27%), Brown Advisory Inc. (1.19%) and Reinhart Partners Inc. (0.92%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew L Price, Donald L Correll, Elissa Joy Charbonneau, Kevin J O'connor, Mark J Tarr and Terrance Williams.
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Shares of EHC stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of EHC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $53.39.

Encompass Health (NYSE:EHC) has a market capitalization of $5.33 billion and generates $5.12 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $412.20 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.27 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 43,400 workers across the globe.

Encompass Health was founded in 1984.

Encompass Health's mailing address is 3660 Grandview Pkwy Ste 200, BIRMINGHAM, AL 35243-3332, United States. The official website for the company is www.healthsouth.com. The company can be reached via phone at (205) 967-7116, via email at investorrelations@healthsouth.com, or via fax at 205-969-4719.