Ensign Group Inc (NASDAQ:ENSG) shares, rose in value on Friday, June 20, with the stock price down by -1.80% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $153.54.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $156.36, falling within a range of $152.395 and $157.32. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.037 whereas the PE ratio was 28.84 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $158.45, and the low was $118.73. On the whole, ENSG has fluctuated by 2.94% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Ensign Group Inc currently standing at about $8.83 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Apr-29. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.24, with its dividend yield at 0.16%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that ENSG’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.47, with the price of ENSG currently trading nearly 2.44% and 9.60% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 64.01, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.51% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.05%. Furthermore, Ensign Group Inc (ENSG)’s beta value is 1.04, and its average true range (ATR) is 3.39.
A comparison of Ensign Group Inc (ENSG) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. ENSG showed an intraday change of -1.80% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 25.70%%.
Data on historical trading for Ensign Group Inc (NASDAQ:ENSG) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.38 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 436.54K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 57.55 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 3.52% of Ensign Group Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 93.15% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 2.51 million shares as on 2025-05-30, resulting in a short ratio of 5.82. According to the data, the short interest in Ensign Group Inc (ENSG) stood at 601.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-05-30; the number of short shares registered in 2025-04-30 reached 2.31 million. The stock has risen by 15.57% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the ENSG stock heading into the next quarter.
