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Value Stock Watch: DaVita healthCare Partners Inc. (NYSE:DVA) - Enterprise Leader |
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DaVita healthCare Partners Inc. (NYSE:DVA) has been identified as a value stock according to Zacks Research. Value stock investors typically look for equities that are trading at a lower price relative to the company’s fundamentals, such as earnings, sales and dividends. A low price to earnings ratio or a low price to book ratio are typical characteristics of a value stock. Value investors believe that the market is not always efficiently matching a stock’s performance to its current price level.
Shares of DaVita healthCare Partners Inc. (NYSE:DVA) currently have a rating of 1.8 according to Zacks Research. This value is based on a simplified scale where 1 is a Buy and 5 is a sell. The rating is based on the pooled information from 6 sell-side research firms on Wall Street covering the stock. Analyst Factor Wall Street analysts projecting future stock price targets have a mean estimate of $89. The firms issuing ratings range from the low of $83 to the high of $96. Analysts believe that DaVita healthCare Partners Inc. will report earnings per share of $0.94 for the current quarter. The company most recently posted EPS of $0.86 for the period ending on 2015-03-31, or 1.18% difference from what analysts on a consensus basis had expected. DaVita healthCare Partners Inc. will announce their next earnings results on 2015-07-30. About DaVita healthCare Partners Inc. DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., formerly DaVita Inc., is a provider of dialysis services in the United States for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure, also known as end stage renal disease (ESRD). As of December 31, 2011, the Company provided dialysis and administrative services through a network of 1,809 outpatient dialysis centers located in the United States throughout 43 states and the District of Columbia, serving a total of approximately 142,000 patients. It also provides acute inpatient dialysis services in approximately 900 hospitals and related laboratory services throughout the United States. In July 2013, DaVita, a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc announced the acquisition of the dialysis operations of Malaysia’s Caring Dialysis Centre Group (CDC Group) by DVA (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd.
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