Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH) Updates FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of -0.550-0.000 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 0.170. The company issued revenue guidance of $12.2 billion-$12.6 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $12.6 billion.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research firms have recently commented on CYH. Barclays upped their price target on shares of Community Health Systems from $3.00 to $5.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 24th. Truist Financial dropped their price target on shares of Community Health Systems from $5.00 to $3.50 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, January 6th. Raymond James cut Community Health Systems from a “market perform” rating to an “underperform” rating in a report on Friday, November 22nd. StockNews.com lowered shares of Community Health Systems from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Monday, November 25th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company downgraded shares of Community Health Systems from an “equal weight” rating to an “underweight” rating and dropped their target price for the stock from $5.00 to $2.50 in a report on Monday, November 25th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and two have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $4.52.

Community Health Systems Trading Down 1.0 %

Shares of NYSE:CYH traded down $0.04 during midday trading on Tuesday, reaching $3.35. 3,698,266 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,219,899. The stock has a market cap of $464.79 million, a PE ratio of -1.11 and a beta of 1.63. The business’s fifty day moving average is $3.22 and its two-hundred day moving average is $4.30. Community Health Systems has a one year low of $2.51 and a one year high of $6.29.

Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, February 18th. The company reported ($0.42) earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.09 by ($0.51). As a group, sell-side analysts expect that Community Health Systems will post -0.55 EPS for the current year.

About Community Health Systems

Community Health Systems, Inc owns, leases, and operates general acute care hospitals in the United States. It offers general acute care, emergency room, general and specialty surgery, critical care, internal medicine, obstetrics, diagnostic, psychiatric, and rehabilitation services, as well as skilled nursing and home care services.