How to buy Acadia Healthcare Company stock | $50.26

Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc is a medical care facilities business based in the US. Acadia Healthcare Company shares (ACHC) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Acadia Healthcare Company employs 28,400 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$3.1 billion.

How to buy shares in Acadia Healthcare Company

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Acadia Healthcare Company. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: ACHC. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Acadia Healthcare Company reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$50.26, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Acadia Healthcare Company, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Acadia Healthcare Company. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Acadia Healthcare Company share price

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Acadia Healthcare Company shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-26.

Latest market close	USD$50.26
52-week range	USD$11.09 - USD$50.41
50-day moving average	USD$44.2638
200-day moving average	USD$33.0834
Wall St. target price	USD$44.85
PE ratio	43.4863
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$1.133

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Acadia Healthcare Company price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $50.26 from 2020-12-31

1 week (2021-01-11)	-2.63%
1 month (2020-12-18)	2.70%
3 months (2020-10-16)	51.34%
6 months (2020-07-17)	82.63%

1 year (2020-01-17)	50.12%
2 years (2019-01-18)	73.37%
3 years (2018-01-18)	51.29%
5 years (2016-01-15)	58.34

Is Acadia Healthcare Company under- or over-valued?

Valuing Acadia Healthcare Company stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Acadia Healthcare Company's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Acadia Healthcare Company's P/E ratio

Acadia Healthcare Company's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 43x. In other words, Acadia Healthcare Company shares trade at around 43x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Acadia Healthcare Company's PEG ratio

Acadia Healthcare Company's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.32. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Acadia Healthcare Company's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Acadia Healthcare Company's EBITDA

Acadia Healthcare Company's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$561.8 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Acadia Healthcare Company's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Acadia Healthcare Company financials

Revenue TTM	USD$3.1 billion
Operating margin TTM	12.52%
Gross profit TTM	USD$1.3 billion
Return on assets TTM	3.56%
Return on equity TTM	4.03%
Profit margin	3.19%
Book value	$29.648
Market capitalisation	USD$4.4 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Acadia Healthcare Company shares

There are currently 6.1 million Acadia Healthcare Company shares held short by investors – that's known as Acadia Healthcare Company's "short interest". This figure is 16.4% down from 7.4 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Acadia Healthcare Company shares can be evaluated.

Acadia Healthcare Company's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Acadia Healthcare Company's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Acadia Healthcare Company shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Acadia Healthcare Company shares traded daily (recently around 601888.54064642). Acadia Healthcare Company's SIR currently stands at 10.21. In other words for every 100,000 Acadia Healthcare Company shares traded daily on the market, roughly 10210 shares are currently held short.

However Acadia Healthcare Company's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Acadia Healthcare Company shares, or, against the total number of tradable Acadia Healthcare Company shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Acadia Healthcare Company's short interest could be expressed as 0.07% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Acadia Healthcare Company shares in existence, roughly 70 shares are currently held short) or 0.0989% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Acadia Healthcare Company shares, roughly 99 shares are currently held short).

A SIR above 10% would generally be considered pretty high, pointing to a potentially pessimistic outlook for the share price and a discouraging interest in betting against Acadia Healthcare Company.

Find out more about how you can short Acadia Healthcare Company stock.

Acadia Healthcare Company share dividends

We're not expecting Acadia Healthcare Company to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Acadia Healthcare Company's shares ever split?

Acadia Healthcare Company's shares were split on a 1:4 basis on 1 November 2011. So if you had owned 4 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Acadia Healthcare Company shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 300% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Acadia Healthcare Company shares which in turn could have impacted Acadia Healthcare Company's share price.

Acadia Healthcare Company share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Acadia Healthcare Company's shares have ranged in value from as little as $11.09 up to $50.41. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Acadia Healthcare Company's is 1.4772. This would suggest that Acadia Healthcare Company's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Acadia Healthcare Company overview

Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. develops and operates inpatient psychiatric facilities, residential treatment centers, group homes, substance abuse facilities, and outpatient behavioral healthcare facilities to serve the behavioral health and recovery needs of communities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Puerto Rico. The company operates acute inpatient psychiatric facilities, which cares to stabilize patients that are either threat to themselves or others by hourly observation, daily intervention, and monitoring by psychiatrists; and specialty treatment facilities, including residential recovery and eating disorder facilities, and comprehensive treatment centers that provide continuum care for adults with addictive disorders and co-occurring mental disorders. It also provides residential treatment centers, which treat patients with behavioral disorders in a non-hospital setting, including outdoor programs; and outpatient community-based services, such as community-based programs that are designed to offer therapeutic treatment to children and adolescents who have a clinically-defined emotional, psychiatric, or chemical dependency disorders. In addition, the company provides mental health rehabilitation services comprising relapse prevention and social integration services, as well as vocational opportunities; acute services for patients at risk to themselves or others, as well as crisis intervention and treatment of behavioral emergencies; and long-term and non-acute care services for adults suffering from mental illness, addiction, learning disability, or brain injury. Further, it provides education and children's services for children and young people with special educational needs; adult care services; and care first services for employees. As of December 31, 2019, the company operated a network of 585 behavioral healthcare facilities with 18,200 beds. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Acadia Healthcare Company is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 1.611% of Acadia Healthcare Company shares are held by insiders and 106.329% by institutions.

• How many people work for Acadia Healthcare Company?

  Latest data suggests 28,400 work at Acadia Healthcare Company.

• When does the fiscal year end for Acadia Healthcare Company?

  Acadia Healthcare Company's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Acadia Healthcare Company based?

  Acadia Healthcare Company's address is: 6100 Tower Circle, Franklin, TN, United States, 37067

• What is Acadia Healthcare Company's ISIN number?

  Acadia Healthcare Company's international securities identification number is: US00404A1097

• What is Acadia Healthcare Company's CUSIP number?

  Acadia Healthcare Company's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 00404A109