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What Does the Market Think of CVS Health (CVS) Shares?

This afternoon we watched CVS Health drop -1.1% to a price of $66.34 per share. The large-cap Pharmaceutical Retail company is now trading -27.54% below its average target price of $91.56. Analysts have set target prices ranging from $76.0 to $110.0 per share for CVS Health, and have given the stock an average rating of buy.

The stock has a very low short interest at 1.5%, and a short ratio of 2.13. The company's insiders own 0.18% of its outstanding shares, which indicates a strong alignment between management and shareholder interests. Finally, we also note that an average number of institutional investors are invested in the stock, with 79.9% of CVS Health's shares being owned by this investor type.

Institutions Invested in CVS Health

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2023-06-30 Vanguard Group Inc 9% 116,676,882 $7,740,927,878
2023-06-30 Blackrock Inc. 7% 93,734,850 $6,218,838,737
2023-06-30 State Street Corporation 4% 55,877,387 $3,707,185,308
2023-06-30 Morgan Stanley 3% 33,253,424 $2,206,198,455
2023-06-30 Capital World Investors 2% 30,490,802 $2,022,912,295
2023-06-30 Geode Capital Management, LLC 2% 23,325,287 $1,547,516,194
2023-06-30 FMR, LLC 2% 21,292,797 $1,412,670,642
2023-06-30 Invesco Ltd. 1% 17,002,487 $1,128,030,020
2023-06-30 Bank of America Corporation 1% 16,551,119 $1,098,084,010
2023-06-30 Dodge & Cox Inc 1% 16,024,422 $1,063,140,297

Besides an analyst consensus of strong upside potential, other market factors point to there being mixed market sentiment on CVS Health.

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