CVS Health Corp (CVS) EPS is poised to hit 1.71 next quarter: How Investors Can Make It Count the Most?

Witnessing the stock’s movement on the chart, on Wednesday, CVS Health Corp (NYSE: CVS) set off with pace as it heaved 0.14% to $79.43, before settling in for the price of $79.32 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, CVS posted a 52-week range of $64.41-$83.25.

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The Healthcare sector firm’s twelve-monthly sales growth has been 13.36% for the last half of the decade. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -5.07%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $1.29 billion, simultaneously with a float of $1.26 billion. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $99.96 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $75.66, while the 200-day Moving Average is $72.48.

CVS Health Corp (CVS) Ownership Facts and Figures

Nothing is more important than checking the behaviour of major investors towards the stock of the Healthcare Plans industry. CVS Health Corp’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.19%, in contrast to 82.39% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Feb 16 ’24, this organization’s EVP and Pres-Pharm, Consumer W sold 29,473 shares at the rate of 76.95, making the entire transaction reach 2,267,947 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 39,765. Preceding that transaction, on Nov 03 ’23, Company’s Director bought 2,000 for 70.47, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 140,930. This particular insider is now the holder of 20,630 in total.

CVS Health Corp (CVS) Earnings and Revenue Records

As on 12/30/2023, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported $2.12 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at $1.99) by $0.13. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.22 per share during the current fiscal year.

CVS Health Corp’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -5.07% and is forecasted to reach 9.22 in the upcoming year.

CVS Health Corp (NYSE: CVS) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for CVS Health Corp (CVS). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.63. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.54. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $12.28, and its Beta score is 0.51. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.28. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 9.62.

In the same vein, CVS’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 6.47, a figure that is expected to reach 1.71 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 9.22 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of CVS Health Corp (CVS)

Going through the that latest performance of [CVS Health Corp, CVS]. Its last 5-days volume of 9.66 million was inferior to the volume of 11.34 million it revealed a year ago. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 87.59% While, its Average True Range was 1.52.

Raw Stochastic average of CVS Health Corp (CVS) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 77.70%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 90.48% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 11.79% that was lower than 21.70% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.