Option Care Health Inc (NASDAQ: OPCH) is 45.22% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $21.39 and a high of $35.53 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 OPCH stock was last observed hovering at around $33.56 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.13%.
Currently trading at $33.69, the stock is -1.66% and 1.69% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.29 million and changing 0.39% at the moment leaves the stock 15.21% off its SMA200. OPCH registered 5.38% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 19.43%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $33.1304 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $29.24225.
The stock witnessed a 2.43% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 39.56%, and is -3.58% 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 5.83% over the week and 2.99% over the month.
Option Care Health Inc (OPCH) has around 6015 employees, a market worth around $5.53B and $5.00B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 27.46 and Fwd P/E is 18.18. Profit margin for the company is 4.24%. Distance from 52-week low is 57.50% and -5.18% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (8.17%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 1.86% this year
468.0 institutions hold shares in Option Care Health Inc (OPCH), with institutional investors hold 102.17% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 166.26M, and float is at 162.03M with Short Float at 2.99%. Institutions hold 101.51% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 21.0 million shares valued at $581.72 million. The investor’s holdings represent 12.1442 of the OPCH Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 19.5 million shares valued at $540.19 million to account for 11.2124 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP which holds 8.6 million shares representing 4.9712 and valued at over $238.13 million, while STATE STREET CORP holds 3.5702 of the shares totaling 6.17 million with a market value of $171.01 million.
Option Care Health Inc (OPCH) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Bavaro Michael, the company’s Chief Human Resources Officer. SEC filings show that Bavaro Michael sold 30,996 shares of the company’s common stock on Feb 28 ’25 at a price of $33.26 per share for a total of $1.03 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 44974.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Nov 08 ’24, KRAEMER HARRY M JANSEN JR (Director) acquired 43,000 shares at an average price of $22.54 for $0.97 million. The insider now directly holds 326,334 shares of Option Care Health Inc (OPCH).
