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Encompass Health Corporation is a medical care facilities business based in the US. Encompass Health Corporation shares (EHC) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Encompass Health Corporation employs 27,970 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$4.6 billion.
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Latest market close | USD$84.44 |
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52-week range | USD$47.363 - USD$87.11 |
50-day moving average | USD$79.2479 |
200-day moving average | USD$68.3359 |
Wall St. target price | USD$89.79 |
PE ratio | 30.9663 |
Dividend yield | USD$1.12 (1.35%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$2.67 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $84.44 from 2020-12-11
1 week (2021-01-07) | -1.81% |
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1 month (2020-12-17) | 1.64% |
3 months (2020-10-15) | 23.98% |
6 months (2020-07-15) | 29.49% |
1 year (2020-01-15) | 8.95% |
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2 years (2019-01-15) | 28.04% |
3 years (2018-01-13) | N/A |
5 years (2016-01-15) | 149.53% |
Valuing Encompass Health Corporation stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Encompass Health Corporation's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Encompass Health Corporation's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 31x. In other words, Encompass Health Corporation shares trade at around 31x 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.
Encompass Health Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$856.5 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Encompass Health Corporation's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | USD$4.6 billion |
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Operating margin TTM | 13.38% |
Gross profit TTM | USD$1.9 billion |
Return on assets TTM | 5.94% |
Return on equity TTM | 18.23% |
Profit margin | 5.76% |
Book value | $15.3 |
Market capitalisation | USD$8.2 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
There are currently 2.1 million Encompass Health Corporation shares held short by investors – that's known as Encompass Health Corporation's "short interest". This figure is 6.5% up from 2.0 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Encompass Health Corporation shares can be evaluated.
Encompass Health Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Encompass Health Corporation shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Encompass Health Corporation shares traded daily (recently around 648214.84848485). Encompass Health Corporation's SIR currently stands at 3.3. In other words for every 100,000 Encompass Health Corporation shares traded daily on the market, roughly 3300 shares are currently held short.
However Encompass Health Corporation's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Encompass Health Corporation shares, or, against the total number of tradable Encompass Health Corporation shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Encompass Health Corporation's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Encompass Health Corporation shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.0275% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Encompass Health Corporation shares, roughly 28 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 Encompass Health Corporation.
Find out more about how you can short Encompass Health Corporation stock.
Dividend payout ratio: 39.86% of net profits
Recently Encompass Health Corporation has paid out, on average, around 39.86% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.35% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Encompass Health Corporation shareholders could enjoy a 1.35% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Encompass Health Corporation's case, that would currently equate to about $1.12 per share.
While Encompass Health Corporation's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Encompass Health Corporation may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Encompass Health Corporation's most recent dividend payout was on 15 January 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 31 December 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").
Encompass Health Corporation's shares were split on a 1:5 basis on 26 October 2006. So if you had owned 5 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 Encompass Health Corporation shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 400% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Encompass Health Corporation shares which in turn could have impacted Encompass Health Corporation's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Encompass Health Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $47.363 up to $87.11. 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 Encompass Health Corporation's is 1.1113. This would suggest that Encompass Health Corporation's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Encompass Health Corporation provides facility-based and home-based post-acute healthcare services in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Inpatient Rehabilitation, and Home Health and Hospice. The Inpatient Rehabilitation segment provides specialized rehabilitative treatment on an inpatient and outpatient basis to patients who are recovering from conditions, such as stroke and other neurological disorders, cardiac and pulmonary conditions, brain and spinal cord injuries, complex orthopedic conditions, and amputations. The Home Health and Hospice segment provides home health and hospice services primarily in the Southeast and Texas. Its home health services include a range of Medicare-certified home nursing services to adult patients in need of care comprising skilled nursing, medical social work, and home health aide services, as well as physical, occupational, speech therapy, and others. This segment's hospice services comprise in-home services to terminally ill patients and their families to address patients' physical needs, including pain control and symptom management, and to provide emotional and spiritual support. As of November 16, 2020, Encompass Health Corporation operated 137 hospitals, 242 home health locations, and 83 hospice locations in 39 states and Puerto Rico. The company was formerly known as HealthSouth Corporation and changed its name to Encompass Health Corporation in January 2018. Encompass Health Corporation was founded in 1983 and is based in Birmingham, Alabama.
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