The trading price of Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:DHC) remained unchanged on Monday, April 14, and closing at $2.07.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it fluctuated between $2.02 and $2.09. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $4.24 and a 52-week low of $2.00. Over the past month, the stock has lost -21.59% in value.
Diversified Healthcare Trust, whose market valuation is $499.37 million at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-24. The dividend yield on the company stock is 1.93%, while its Forward Dividend ratio is 0.04. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by -0.28 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of -1.03 for current year and -0.74 for next year.
Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of 383.17M for the current quarter, with the likely lows of 376.78M and highs of 387.12M. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue is 1.56B.
On the technical side, indicators suggest DHC has a 100% Sell on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 50% Sell, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Sell.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned DHC a recommendation rating is 1. Out of them, 0 rate it a Hold, while 0 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 1 analyst(s) have tagged Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC) as Underweight, while 0 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Strong Sell, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
A quick review shows that DHC’s price is currently -13.08% off the SMA20 and -18.21% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 34.63, and weekly volatility stands at 10.45%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 6.90%. Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:DHC)’s beta value is currently sitting at 2.37, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 0.17. With analysts defining $5-$5 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $5 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about -141.55% off the estimated low and -141.55% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if DHC’s share price rises to $5, which is the median consensus price. At that level, DHC’s share price would be -141.55% below current price.
To see how Diversified Healthcare Trust stock has been performing in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: DHC stock’s performance was 0.00% in the latest trading, and -20.69% in the past year.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:DHC) indicates that the 3-month average is 990.29K. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 0.91.
Currently, records show that 241.27 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 10.22% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 75.57%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2025-03-31, stood at 9.18 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 10.54 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 740.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in March were up slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 8.72 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen -10.00% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even lower.
