BrightSpring Health Services Inc (NASDAQ:BTSG) price closed lower on Friday, January 10, and dropping -0.87% below its previous close.
A look at the daily price movement shows that the last close reads $17.32, with intraday deals fluctuated between $15.26 and $17.63. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $20.25 and 52-week low of $7.85. The stock subtracted -4.72% on its value in the past month.
BrightSpring Health Services Inc, which has a market valuation of $2.99 billion, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report in February.
On average, analysts have forecast the company’s revenue for the quarter will hit 2.95B, with the likely lows of 2.85B and highs of 3.01B. The average estimate suggests sales growth for the quarter will likely rise by 24.17% when compared to those recorded in the same quarter in the last financial year. Staying with the analyst view, there is a consensus estimate of 11.17B for the company’s annual revenue in current year. Per this projection, the revenue is forecast to grow 26.53% above that which the company brought in the current year earning report.
Technical indicators in stocks provide crucial insights into market trends, guiding investors with precise entry and exit points based on price movements for informed decision-making.On the technical perspective front, indicators give BTSG a short term outlook of Hold on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 50% Buy, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 100% Buy.
Here is a look at the average analyst rating for the stock as represented on a scale of 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock is strong buy or strong sell respectively. Specifically, 2 analysts have assigned BTSG a recommendation rating as follows: 0 rate it as a Hold; 2 advise Buy while 0 analyst(s) assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged the BrightSpring Health Services Inc (BTSG) stock as Underweight, with 0 recommending Sell. In general, analysts have rated the stock Buy, a scenario likely to bolster investors out for an opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
The overview shows that BTSG’s price is at present -2.17% off the SMA20 and -4.93% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 44.04, with weekly volatility standing at 6.65%. The indicator jumps to 5.10% when calculated based on the past 30 days. BrightSpring Health Services Inc (NASDAQ:BTSG)’s beta value is holding at 1.46, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.85.
An analysis of the BrightSpring Health Services Inc (NASDAQ:BTSG) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 1.39 million. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 1.05 million.
Current records show that the company has 174.08M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 67.99% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 46.83%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-12-13, stood at 7.34 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 5.42. From this we can glean that short interest is 1341.00 of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in December rose slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 6.79 million. But the 0.82% upside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of last trading, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.
