How to buy Brookdale Senior Living stock | 2.89

Brookdale Senior Living Inc is a medical care facilities business based in the US. Brookdale Senior Living shares (BKD) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Brookdale Senior Living employs 38,400 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$3.3 billion.

How to buy shares in Brookdale Senior Living

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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 Brookdale Senior Living. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: BKD. 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 Brookdale Senior Living 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$2.89, 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 Brookdale Senior Living, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Brookdale Senior Living. 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.

How has coronavirus impacted Brookdale Senior Living's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Brookdale Senior Living's share price has had significant negative movement.

Its last market close was USD$2.89, which is 63.83% down on its pre-crash value of USD$7.99 and 96.60% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$1.47.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Brookdale Senior Living shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$341.55 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$444.63.

Brookdale Senior Living share price

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Brookdale Senior Living shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-14.

Latest market close	USD$2.89
52-week range	USD$1.47 - USD$8.8
50-day moving average	USD$2.7377
200-day moving average	USD$2.9801
Wall St. target price	USD$4
PE ratio	5.5217
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.44

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Is it a good time to buy Brookdale Senior Living stock?

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Brookdale Senior Living price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $2.89 from 2020-10-19

1 week (2020-10-16)	-0.69%
1 month (2020-09-25)	16.53%
3 months (2020-07-24)	8.65%
6 months (2020-04-24)	-11.08%

1 year (2019-10-25)	-63.42%
2 years (2018-10-25)	-65.43%
3 years (2017-10-25)	-70.81%
5 years (2015-10-23)	-86.43%

Is Brookdale Senior Living under- or over-valued?

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

Brookdale Senior Living's P/E ratio

Brookdale Senior Living's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 6x. In other words, Brookdale Senior Living shares trade at around 6x recent earnings.

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

Brookdale Senior Living's EBITDA

Brookdale Senior Living's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$413.2 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Brookdale Senior Living's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Brookdale Senior Living financials

Revenue TTM	USD$3.3 billion
Operating margin TTM	1.26%
Gross profit TTM	USD$895.2 million
Return on assets TTM	0.34%
Return on equity TTM	9%
Profit margin	2.5%
Book value	$5.118
Market capitalisation	USD$523.2 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Brookdale Senior Living shares

There are currently 7.9 million Brookdale Senior Living shares held short by investors – that's known as Brookdale Senior Living's "short interest". This figure is 8.7% up from 7.3 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Brookdale Senior Living shares can be evaluated.

Brookdale Senior Living's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Brookdale Senior Living's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Brookdale Senior Living shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Brookdale Senior Living shares traded daily (recently around 1.9 million). Brookdale Senior Living's SIR currently stands at 4.23. In other words for every 100,000 Brookdale Senior Living shares traded daily on the market, roughly 4230 shares are currently held short.

However Brookdale Senior Living's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Brookdale Senior Living shares, or, against the total number of tradable Brookdale Senior Living shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Brookdale Senior Living's short interest could be expressed as 0.04% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Brookdale Senior Living shares in existence, roughly 40 shares are currently held short) or 0.0486% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Brookdale Senior Living shares, roughly 49 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Brookdale Senior Living.

Find out more about how you can short Brookdale Senior Living stock.

Brookdale Senior Living share dividends

We're not expecting Brookdale Senior Living to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Brookdale Senior Living's shares ever split?

Brookdale Senior Living's shares were split on a 5:6 basis on 8 April 2015. So if you had owned 6 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 5 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Brookdale Senior Living shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 20% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Brookdale Senior Living shares which in turn could have impacted Brookdale Senior Living's share price.

Brookdale Senior Living share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Brookdale Senior Living's shares have ranged in value from as little as $1.47 up to $8.8. 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 (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Brookdale Senior Living's is 1.5814. This would suggest that Brookdale Senior Living's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Brookdale Senior Living overview

Brookdale Senior Living Inc. owns and operates senior living communities in the United States. It operates through five segments: Independent Living, Assisted Living and Memory Care, CCRCs, Health Care Services, and Management Services. The Independent Living segment owns or leases communities comprising independent and assisted living units in a single community that are primarily designed for middle to upper income senior citizens. The Assisted Living and Memory Care segment owns or leases communities consisting of freestanding multi-story communities and freestanding single story communities, which offer housing and 24-hour assistance with activities of daily life to mid-acuity frail and elderly residents. This segment also operates memory care communities for residents with Alzheimer's and other dementias. The CCRCs segment owns or leases communities that offer various living arrangements, such as independent and assisted living, and skilled nursing; and services to accommodate various levels of physical ability and health. The Health Care Services segment provides home health, hospice, and outpatient therapy services, as well as education and wellness programs to residents of its communities, as well as to other senior living outside of the its communities. The Management Services segment operates communities under the management agreements. As of February 01, 2020, the company owned 356 communities, leased 307 communities, managed 77 communities on behalf of third parties, and three communities for which it have equity interest. Brookdale Senior Living Inc. is headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Brookdale Senior Living is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 1.975% of Brookdale Senior Living shares are held by insiders and 103.852% by institutions.

• How many people work for Brookdale Senior Living?

  Latest data suggests 38,400 work at Brookdale Senior Living.

• When does the fiscal year end for Brookdale Senior Living?

  Brookdale Senior Living's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Brookdale Senior Living based?

  Brookdale Senior Living's address is: 111 Westwood Place, Brentwood, TN, United States, 37027

• What is Brookdale Senior Living's ISIN number?

  Brookdale Senior Living's international securities identification number is: US1124631045

• What is Brookdale Senior Living's CUSIP number?

  Brookdale Senior Living's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 112463104