Community Health Systems, Inc (NYSE:CYH) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, July 09, with the stock price down by -0.28% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $3.51.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $3.52, falling within a range of $3.46 and $3.555. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 2.135. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $6.29, and the low was $2.24. On the whole, CYH has fluctuated by -10.23% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Community Health Systems, Inc currently standing at about $492.48 million, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Apr-23.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 12.37B, with a low estimate of 2.94B and a high estimate of 3.11B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 3.02B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that CYH’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a Hold 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 Hold.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of CYH currently trading nearly 4.67% and 0.50% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 53.38, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.53% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.93%. Furthermore, Community Health Systems, Inc (CYH)’s beta value is 1.89.
A comparison of Community Health Systems, Inc (CYH) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. CYH showed an intraday change of -0.28% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 17.39%%.
Data on historical trading for Community Health Systems, Inc (NYSE:CYH) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 2.34 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 2.98 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 140.30 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 14.19% of Community Health Systems, Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 77.00% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 12.45 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 4.55. According to the data, the short interest in Community Health Systems, Inc (CYH) stood at 991.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 13.99 million. The stock has risen by 6.04% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the CYH stock heading into the next quarter.
