Community Health Systems, Inc. (CYH)

Community Health Systems Stock Forecast

Stock Price Forecast

The 6 analysts with 12-month price forecasts for Community Health Systems stock have an average target of 4.18, with a low estimate of 2.50 and a high estimate of 6.00. The average target predicts an increase of 19.09% from the current stock price of 3.51.

Analyst Consensus: Hold

Target	Low	Average	Median	High
Price	$2.50	$4.18	$4.10	$6.00
Change	-28.77%	+19.09%	+16.81%	+70.94%

Analyst Ratings

The average analyst rating for Community Health Systems stock from 7 stock analysts is "Hold". This means that analysts believe this stock is likely to perform similarly to the overall market.

Recommendation Trends

Rating	Sep '24	Oct '24	Nov '24	Dec '24	Jan '25	Feb '25
Strong Buy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Buy	2	2	2	2	2	2
Hold	3	3	2	2	2	3
Sell	0	0	2	2	2	2
Strong Sell	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	5	5	6	6	6	7

Latest Forecasts

Analyst	Firm	Rating	Rating	Action	Price Target	Upside	Date
A.J. Rice UBS	UBS	Hold Maintains $4.8 → $4.1	Hold	Maintains	$4.8 → $4.1	+16.81%	Feb 20, 2025
Andrew Mok Barclays	Barclays	Hold Maintains $5 → $4	Hold	Maintains	$5 → $4	+13.96%	Feb 20, 2025
David Macdonald Truist Securities	Truist Securities	Hold Maintains $5 → $3.5	Hold	Maintains	$5 → $3.5	-0.28%	Jan 6, 2025
Stephen Baxter Wells Fargo	Wells Fargo	Hold → Sell Downgrades $5 → $2.5	Hold → Sell	Downgrades	$5 → $2.5	-28.77%	Nov 25, 2024
John Ransom Raymond James	Raymond James	Hold → Sell Downgrades n/a	Hold → Sell	Downgrades	n/a	n/a	Nov 22, 2024

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Financial Forecast

Revenue This Year

12.64B

Increased by 1.23%

from 12.49B

Revenue Next Year

12.87B

Increased by 1.75%

from 12.64B

EPS This Year

-0.55

from -1.02

EPS Next Year

0.34

from -0.55

Fiscal Year	FY 2019	FY 2020	FY 2021	FY 2022	FY 2023	FY 2024	FY 2025	FY 2026
Period Ending	Dec 31, 2019	Dec 31, 2020	Dec 31, 2021	Dec 31, 2022	Dec 31, 2023	Dec 31, 2024	Dec 31, 2025	Dec 31, 2026
Revenue	13.21B	11.79B	12.37B	12.21B	12.49B	12.64B	12.87B	13.39B
Revenue Growth	-6.68%	-10.76%	4.91%	-1.27%	2.28%	1.23%	1.75%	4.08%
EPS	-5.93	4.39	1.76	0.35	-1.02	-0.55	0.34	0.49
EPS Growth	-	-	-59.91%	-80.11%	-	-	-	45.80%
Forward PE	-	-	-	-	-	-	10.46	7.18
No. Analysts	-	-	-	-	-	9	9	8

Historical EPS numbers are GAAP, while forecasted numbers may be non-GAAP.

Revenue Forecast

Revenue	2024	2025	2026
High	13.2B	13.6B	14.2B
Avg	12.6B	12.9B	13.4B
Low	12.2B	12.1B	12.6B

Revenue Growth

Revenue Growth	2024	2025	2026
High	5.9%	7.4%	10.3%
Avg	1.2%	1.7%	4.1%
Low	-2.2%	-4.3%	-2.2%

EPS Forecast

EPS	2024	2025	2026
High	-0.55	0.57	1.16
Avg	-0.55	0.34	0.49
Low	-0.54	0.16	0.17

EPS Growth

EPS Growth	2024	2025	2026
High	-	-	244.3%
Avg	-	-	45.8%
Low	-	-	-50.3%

Sources: Price targets and analyst ratings provided by Benzinga. Revenue and EPS forecast data provided by Finnhub. The data is sourced from Wall Street analysts. Data disclaimer.