Currently, there are 99.78M common shares owned by the public and among those 98.86M shares have been available to trade.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 81 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 60 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 258,857 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 21 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 59,247 shares.
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However, the script later moved the day high at 74.14, down -0.31%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 0.85% and 15.10% over the past three months. EHC shares are trading 10.24% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 18.34% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $51.15 and touched a high of $76.84 over the same period. EHC has an average intraday trading volume of 569.45K shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 1.99%, 6.31%, and 10.37% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Encompass Health Corp (NYSE: EHC) shares accounts for 98.45% of the company’s 99.78M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $7.37B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.95. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 21.17, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $3.47. The company has a PEG of 1.38 and a Quick Ratio of 1.27 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 1.78. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.64% over the week and 1.96% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Encompass Health Corp (EHC) will achieve an EPS of $0.93 for the current quarter, $1.01 for the next quarter and $4.39 for 2025. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $0.88 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $1.01. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $0.88 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 9.01%, and 10.66% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 15.36% over the next five years, compared to 3.45% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the EHC, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Barclays stated their Equal Weight rating for the stock in a research note on March 14, 2023, with the firm’s price target at $57.
