Encompass Health Corp (NYSE: EHC) is 17.84% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $57.55 and a high of $83.73 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The EHC stock was last observed hovering at around $79.69 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -1.07%.
Currently trading at $78.62, the stock is -1.96% and 2.20% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.77 million and changing -1.34% at the moment leaves the stock 12.79% off its SMA200. EHC registered 27.42% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 21.44%.
3 Tiny Stocks Primed to Explode
The world's greatest investor — Warren Buffett — has a simple formula for making big money in the markets. He buys up valuable assets when they are very cheap. For stock market investors that means buying up cheap small cap stocks like these with huge upside potential.
We've set up an alert service to help smart investors take full advantage of the small cap stocks primed for big returns.
Click here for full details and to join for free
Sponsored
The stock witnessed a 1.76% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 10.95%, and is -3.72% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.98% over the week and 1.88% over the month.
Encompass Health Corp (EHC) has around 37761 employees, a market worth around $7.87B and $4.80B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 22.61 and Fwd P/E is 17.83. Profit margin for the company is 7.31%. Distance from 52-week low is 36.61% and -6.10% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (7.74%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 9.24% this year
The shares outstanding are 100.25M, and float is at 98.61M with Short Float at 2.50%.
Encompass Health Corp (EHC) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by COLTHARP DOUGLAS E, the company’s EVP & Chief Financial Officer. SEC filings show that COLTHARP DOUGLAS E sold 11,215 shares of the company’s common stock on Nov 13 ’23 at a price of $63.39 per share for a total of $0.71 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.12 million shares.
Encompass Health Corp disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Aug 17 ’23 that Charbonneau Elissa Joy (Chief Medical Officer) sold a total of 8,294 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Aug 17 ’23 and was made at $69.58 per share for $0.58 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 23081.0 shares of the EHC stock.
Still, SEC filings show that on Aug 16 ’23, Tarr Mark J (President & CEO) disposed off 25,330 shares at an average price of $71.06 for $1.8 million. The insider now directly holds 497,405 shares of Encompass Health Corp (EHC).
