Amedisys (AMED) Stock Price, News & Analysis

8 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Amedisys in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" AMED shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in AMED, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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8 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Amedisys' shares. Their AMED share price targets range from $81.00 to $101.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $97.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.9% from the stock's current price.
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Amedisys' stock was trading at $95.06 at the beginning of the year. Since then, AMED shares have decreased by 4.9% and is now trading at $90.40.
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Amedisys saw a decline in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,490,000 shares, a decline of 20.2% from the March 15th total of 3,120,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 291,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 8.5 days. Currently, 7.8% 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, May 1st 2024.
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Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMED) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 21st. The health services provider reported $0.94 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.04 by $0.10. The health services provider had revenue of $570.79 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $566.85 million. Amedisys had a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 12.76% and a negative net margin of 0.44%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 1.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.16 earnings per share.

ETFs with the largest weight of Amedisys (NASDAQ:AMED) stock in their portfolio include First Trust Merger Arbitrage ETF (MARB), IQ Merger Arbitrage ETF (MNA), SPDR S&P Health Care Services ETF (XHS), SRH U.S. Quality ETF (SRHQ), AltShares Event-Driven ET (EVNT), AltShares Merger Arbitrage ETF (ARB) and Fundamentals First ETF (KNOW).iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF (IHF).

478 employees have rated Amedisys Chief Executive Officer Paul B. Kusserow on Glassdoor.com. Paul B. Kusserow has an approval rating of 79% among the company's employees. 60.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Amedisys to a friend.

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Amedisys' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bridge City Capital LLC (0.09%) and Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Bruce D Perkins, Christopher Gerard, David L Kemmerly, Denise M Bohnert, Michael Paul North, Richard A Lechleiter and Scott G Ginn.
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Shares of AMED stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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