How to buy Acadia Healthcare Company stock | $64.36

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 20,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.

Acadia Healthcare Company stock price (NASDAQ: ACHC)

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Acadia Healthcare Company shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-07-30.

Latest market close	$64.36
52-week range	$27.07 - $68.00
50-day moving average	$62.94
200-day moving average	$59.19
Wall St. target price	$68.09
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	$1.13

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Acadia Healthcare Company price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $64.36 from 2021-05-28

1 week (2021-07-24)	N/A
1 month (2021-07-02)	1.45%
3 months (2021-05-04)	3.34%
6 months (2021-01-31)	N/A

1 year (2020-07-31)	N/A
2 years (2019-07-31)	N/A
3 years (2018-07-31)	N/A
5 years (2016-07-31)	N/A

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 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 $448.8 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	$2.1 billion
Operating margin TTM	16.49%
Gross profit TTM	$848.2 million
Return on assets TTM	3.91%
Return on equity TTM	6.07%
Profit margin	-32.64%
Book value	$25.90
Market capitalisation	$5.6 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Acadia Healthcare Company shares

There are currently 3.0 million Acadia Healthcare Company shares held short by investors – that's known as Acadia Healthcare Company's "short interest". This figure is 10.8% down from 3.3 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 420733.1920904). Acadia Healthcare Company's SIR currently stands at 7.08. In other words for every 100,000 Acadia Healthcare Company shares traded daily on the market, roughly 7080 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 0.03% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Acadia Healthcare Company shares in existence, roughly 30 shares are currently held short) or 0.0321% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Acadia Healthcare Company shares, roughly 32 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Acadia Healthcare Company.

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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 31 October 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 $27.07 up to $68. 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 1.562. 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 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 education and children's, and adult care services. As of March 31, 2021, it operated a network of 228 behavioral healthcare facilities with approximately 10,000 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 1.288% of Acadia Healthcare Company shares are held by insiders and 103.439% by institutions. How many people work for Acadia Healthcare Company?
Latest data suggests 20,000 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