Consider This Before Taking a Position in Tenet Healthcare (THC)

By Naomi Wentworth • Friday, March 10 10:03 • Permanent Link

Tenet Healthcare shares slid -4.63% this morning. Here's what you need to know about the mid-cap pMedical care facility company:

Tenet Healthcare has logged a -38.8% 52 week change, compared to -6.8% for the S&P 500
THC has an average analyst rating of buy and is 27365.0% away from its mean target price of $0.2 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $3.81, which brings its trailing Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio to 14.42. The Health Care sector's average P/E ratio is 24.45
The company's forward earnings per share (EPS) is $6.39 and its forward P/E ratio is 8.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 4.016 in contrast to the Health Care sector's average P/B ratio is 4.16
The current ratio is currently 1.34, which consists in its liquid assets divided by any liabilities due within in the next 12 months
The company's free cash flow for the last fiscal year was $321,000,000.00 and the average free cash flow growth rate is 61.28%
Tenet Healthcare's revenues have an average growth rate of 0.18% with operating expenses growing at -0.96%. The company's current operating margins stand at 12.7%

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