How to buy Aveanna Healthcare stock | $6.72

Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc is a medical care facilities business based in the US. Aveanna Healthcare shares (AVAH) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Aveanna Healthcare employs 42,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.

Aveanna Healthcare stock price (NASDAQ: AVAH)

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Aveanna Healthcare shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-10-09.

Latest market close	$6.72
52-week range	$7.16 - $13.00
50-day moving average	$8.57
200-day moving average	$10.43
Wall St. target price	$15.10
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	$-0.66

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Aveanna Healthcare price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $6.72 from 2021-10-14

1 week (2021-10-08)	-7.57%
1 month (2021-09-16)	-23.02%
3 months (2021-07-16)	-38.74%
6 months (2021-04-12)	N/A

1 year (2020-10-12)	N/A
2 years (2019-10-12)	N/A
3 years (2018-10-12)	N/A
5 years (2016-10-12)	N/A

Is Aveanna Healthcare under- or over-valued?

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

Aveanna Healthcare's EBITDA

Aveanna Healthcare's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $130.2 million.

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

To put Aveanna Healthcare's EBITDA into context you can compare it against that of similar companies.

• Amedisys (AMED.US): USD$299.1 million
• LHC Group (LHCG.US): USD$248.8 million
• National HealthCare Corporation (NHC.US): USD$60.1 million

Aveanna Healthcare financials

Revenue TTM	$1.6 billion
Operating margin TTM	6.88%
Gross profit TTM	$454.5 million
Return on assets TTM	3.34%
Return on equity TTM	-21.2%
Profit margin	-0.61%
Book value	$4.07
Market capitalisation	$1.3 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Aveanna Healthcare shares

There are currently 1.4 million Aveanna Healthcare shares held short by investors – that's known as Aveanna Healthcare's "short interest". This figure is 6.4% down from 1.5 million last month.

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

Aveanna Healthcare's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Aveanna Healthcare's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Aveanna Healthcare shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Aveanna Healthcare shares traded daily (recently around 282208.98203593). Aveanna Healthcare's SIR currently stands at 5.01. In other words for every 100,000 Aveanna Healthcare shares traded daily on the market, roughly 5010 shares are currently held short.

To gain some more context, you can compare Aveanna Healthcare's short interest ratio against those of similar companies.

• Amedisys (AMED.US): 2.22
• LHC Group (LHCG.US): 5.36
• National HealthCare Corporation (NHC.US): 6.04

However Aveanna Healthcare's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Aveanna Healthcare shares, or, against the total number of tradable Aveanna Healthcare shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Aveanna Healthcare's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Aveanna Healthcare shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0328% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Aveanna Healthcare shares, roughly 33 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 Aveanna Healthcare.

Find out more about how you can short Aveanna Healthcare stock.

Aveanna Healthcare share dividends

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

You may also wish to consider:

• National HealthCare Corporation (NHC.US) (3.04% forward annual dividend yield)

Aveanna Healthcare overview

Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. , a diversified home care platform company, provides private duty nursing (PDN), adult home health and hospice, home-based pediatric therapy, and enteral nutrition services in the United States. Its patient- centered care delivery platform allows patients to remain in their homes and minimizes the overutilization of high-cost care settings, such as hospitals. The company operates through three segments: Private Duty Services (PDS), Home Health & Hospice (HHH), and Medical Solutions (MS). The PDS segment offers PDN services, which include in-home skilled nursing services to medically fragile children; nursing services in school settings in which our caregivers accompany patients to school; services to patients in its pediatric day healthcare centers; unskilled nursing services; and employer of record support services, as well as in-clinic and home-based pediatric therapy services, such as physical, occupational, and speech services. The HHH segment provides home health services, including in-home skilled nursing services; physical, occupational, and speech therapy services; and medical social and aide services, as well as hospice services for patients and their families when a life-limiting illness no longer responds to cure-oriented treatments. The MS segment offers a line of durable medical equipment and enteral nutrition supplies to adults and children delivered on a periodic or as-needed basis.

Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Aveanna Healthcare is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 6.026% of Aveanna Healthcare shares are held by insiders and 95.015% by institutions. How many people work for Aveanna Healthcare?
Latest data suggests 42,000 work at Aveanna Healthcare. When does the fiscal year end for Aveanna Healthcare?
Aveanna Healthcare's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Aveanna Healthcare based?
Aveanna Healthcare's address is: 400 Interstate North Parkway SE, Atlanta, GA, United States, 30339 What is Aveanna Healthcare's ISIN number?
Aveanna Healthcare's international securities identification number is: US05356F1057