How to buy Invacare Corporation stock | $9.42

Invacare Corporation is a medical devices business based in the US. Invacare Corporation shares (IVC) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Invacare Corporation employs 3,900 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$859.6 million.

How to buy shares in Invacare Corporation

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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 Invacare Corporation. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: IVC. 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 Invacare Corporation 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$9.42, 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 Invacare Corporation, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Invacare Corporation. 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.

Invacare Corporation share price

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Invacare Corporation shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-27.

Latest market close	USD$9.42
52-week range	USD$3.8922 - USD$9.67
50-day moving average	USD$8.6806
200-day moving average	USD$7.4794
Wall St. target price	USD$14.33
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	USD$0.05 (0.7%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-1.195

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Is it a good time to buy Invacare Corporation stock?

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Invacare Corporation price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $9.42 from 2020-12-09

1 week (2021-01-07)	-6.73%
1 month (2020-12-17)	8.40%
3 months (2020-10-15)	19.39%
6 months (2020-07-15)	31.93%

1 year (2020-01-15)	7.17%
2 years (2019-01-15)	89.16%
3 years (2018-01-13)	N/A
5 years (2016-01-15)	15.81

Is Invacare Corporation under- or over-valued?

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

Invacare Corporation's EBITDA

Invacare Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$25.3 million.

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

Invacare Corporation financials

Revenue TTM	USD$859.6 million
Operating margin TTM	1.3%
Gross profit TTM	USD$262.1 million
Return on assets TTM	0.78%
Return on equity TTM	-12.96%
Profit margin	-4.87%
Book value	$9.602
Market capitalisation	USD$294.6 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Invacare Corporation shares

There are currently 4.7 million Invacare Corporation shares held short by investors – that's known as Invacare Corporation's "short interest". This figure is 3.1% down from 4.8 million last month.

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

Invacare Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Invacare Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Invacare Corporation shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Invacare Corporation shares traded daily (recently around 177695.19634007). Invacare Corporation's SIR currently stands at 26.23. In other words for every 100,000 Invacare Corporation shares traded daily on the market, roughly 26230 shares are currently held short.

However Invacare Corporation's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Invacare Corporation shares, or, against the total number of tradable Invacare Corporation shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Invacare Corporation's short interest could be expressed as 0.14% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Invacare Corporation shares in existence, roughly 140 shares are currently held short) or 0.1654% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Invacare Corporation shares, roughly 165 shares are currently held short).

A SIR above 20% would generally be considered very high, pointing to a pessimistic outlook for the share price, with a discouraging number of investors currently willing to bet against Invacare Corporation.

Find out more about how you can short Invacare Corporation stock.

Invacare Corporation share dividends

We're not expecting Invacare Corporation to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Invacare Corporation's shares ever split?

Invacare Corporation's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 17 October 1995. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Invacare Corporation shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Invacare Corporation shares which in turn could have impacted Invacare Corporation's share price.

Invacare Corporation share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Invacare Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $3.8922 up to $9.67. 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 Invacare Corporation's is 0.9627. This would suggest that Invacare Corporation's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Invacare Corporation overview

Invacare Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, distributes, and exports medical equipment for use in home health care, retail, and extended care markets worldwide. The company operates through Europe, North America/Home Medical Equipment, Institutional Products Group, and the Asia/Pacific segments. It offers mobility and seating products, such as power wheelchairs under the Invacare TDX brand; custom manual wheelchairs under the Invacare, Invacare Top End, and Küschall brand names; and seating and positioning products. The company also provides lifestyle products, including pressure relieving overlays and mattress systems under the Invacare Softform and microAIR brands; safe resident handling products; residential care and home beds and bed accessories, and manual wheelchairs under the Invacare brand name; and personal care products. In addition, the company offers respiratory therapy products comprising stationary oxygen concentrators under the Platinum and Perfecto2 brands; portable oxygen concentrators; and Invacare HomeFill oxygen systems. Further, it sells and distributes healthcare furnishings consisting of long-term care beds, case goods, safe patient handling equipment, and other equipment and accessories for long-term care customers. It sells its products primarily to home medical equipment providers through retail and e-commerce channels, as well as to residential care operators, distributors, and government health service customers through its sales force, independent manufacturers' representatives, and distributors. Invacare Corporation was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in Elyria, Ohio.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Invacare Corporation is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 3.763% of Invacare Corporation shares are held by insiders and 112.569% by institutions.

• How many people work for Invacare Corporation?

  Latest data suggests 3,900 work at Invacare Corporation.

• When does the fiscal year end for Invacare Corporation?

  Invacare Corporation's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Invacare Corporation based?

  Invacare Corporation's address is: One Invacare Way, Elyria, OH, United States, 44035

• What is Invacare Corporation's ISIN number?

  Invacare Corporation's international securities identification number is: US4612031017

• What is Invacare Corporation's CUSIP number?

  Invacare Corporation's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 461203101