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How to buy Henry Schein (HSIC) stocks in Canada

Learn how to easily invest in Henry Schein stocks.

Henry Schein is a medical distribution business based in the US. Henry Schein shares (HSIC.US) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $74.60 – an increase of 0.36% over the previous day. Henry Schein employs 25,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $12.5 billion.

How to buy shares in Henry Schein

  1. Open a brokerage account. Choose from our top broker picks or compare brokers in depth. Then, complete an application.
  2. Fund your account. Add money to your account via bank transfer, debit card or credit card.
  3. Search the platform by ticker symbol. HSIC in this case.
  4. Choose an order type. Place a market order or limit order with your preferred number of shares or dollar amount.
  5. Submit the order. It's that simple.
The whole process can take as little as 15 minutes. You'll need a smartphone or computer, an internet connection, your passport or driving licence and a means of payment.

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Is it a good time to buy Henry Schein stock?

Review technicals and fundamentals to help you determine if now's a good time for you to invest.

Technical analysis

View Henry Schein's price performance, share price volatility, historical data and technicals.

Use our graph to track the performance of HSIC stock over time.

Share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Henry Schein's shares have ranged in value from as little as $60.01 up to $82.63. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

HSIC.US volatility(beta: 0.87)Avg. volatility(beta: 1.00)LowHigh

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Henry Schein's is 0.874. This would suggest that Henry Schein's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Historical closes compared with the last close of $74.6

1 week (2024-05-12)2.01%
1 month (2024-04-18)5.28%
3 months (2024-02-19)-1.37%
6 months (2023-11-19)8.73%
1 year (2023-05-18)-3.02%
3 years (2021-05-19)-6.06%
5 years (2019-05-19)8.92%

The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.

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Is Henry Schein under- or over-valued?

Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Henry Schein P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA.

Henry Schein's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 25x. In other words, Henry Schein's stocks trade at around 25x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Henry Schein's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.6515. A PEG ratio over 1 can be interpreted as meaning shares are overvalued at the current rate of growth, or may anticipate an acceleration in growth.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Henry Schein's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Henry Schein's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $929 million ($1.3 billion CAD).

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

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