CVS · Healthcare
What a holder would want to know before buying CVS: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.
Today’s price is 23% above the lowest point of the past year and 22% below the highest.
Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 58% of days and more expensive on 42%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 79% of days.
2% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.
Fell 20% or more twice in 10 years. The deepest fall was 60%; the longest took 5.5 years to get back to its peak. 1 of 2 have recovered so far.
It is in one now: 22% below the Feb 2022 peak.
CVS Health Corporation · Healthcare · Healthcare Plans · a large company worth $110.20B
CVS Health Corporation provides health solutions in the United States. The Health Care Benefits segment offers traditional, voluntary, and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including…
revenue profit
Sales of $402.07B in 2025, with $1.77B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.
Keeps about 1 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.
Would need about 9.4 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.
You pay $23 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $10 for every $1 of profit expected next year.
A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.
Pays 3.03% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Oct 22.
27 analysts: 25 say buy, 2 hold, 0 sell. Their average 12-month target is $115.76 (range $103.00–$145.00).
Insiders made 0 purchases and 2 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.
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