Community Health Systems, Inc (CYH) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $2.9, with 27.47 million shares of worth about $79.67 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -13.17% during that period and on July 24, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -25.26%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 140.12M shares, out of which, 120.39M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -20.33% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -14.45%. Year-to-date (YTD), CYH shares are showing a performance of -26.58% which decreased to -3.01% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $2.24 but also hit the highest price of $6.29 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Community Health Systems, Inc shares is 2.86 million. The stock is currently trading -18.00% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -19.89% for SMA50 and it goes to -16.94% lower than SMA200.
Community Health Systems, Inc (NYSE: CYH) currently have 140.12M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 75.97% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $406.89M and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.90. It has posted earnings per share of -$1.49 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 1.45. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CYH, volatility over the week remained 5.83% while standing at 5.26% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Community Health Systems, Inc (CYH) stock would likely to be making an EPS of -0.24 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.11 and it is 0.07 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -0.32 which is -0.14 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of -0.3 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 65.51% while it is estimated to increase by 91.55% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Jefferies on July 24, 2025 offering a Hold rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $3 to it. Coverage by Wells Fargo stated Community Health Systems, Inc (CYH) stock as an Underweight in their note to investors on November 25, 2024, suggesting a price target of $2.50 for the stock. On November 22, 2024, Raymond James Downgrade their recommendations, while on March 06, 2024, Barclays Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $3. Stock get a Hold rating from Loop Capital on June 17, 2022.
