Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (AVAH)Healthcare | Medical Care Facilities | Atlanta, United States | NasdaqGS
12.64 USD
+0.28
(2.265%)
⇧
(Oct. 15, 2026, 4 p.m.
EDT)
|
Hot Take ↕ | Oct. 10, 2026, 10:16 a.m. EDT
The immediate outlook is cautiously optimistic, driven by a technical 'Golden Cross' and a surge in call activity targeting the $15 level, which aligns with the analyst mean target. Despite the stock trading at a low P/E of 9.7x, the balance sheet is fragile with a debt-to-equity ratio exceeding 500%, and the company has no history of paying dividends. While the recent price action shows a strong recovery from multi-year lows, the lack of a dividend yield and the elevated leverage prevent a full endorsement as a long-term hold. The statistical forecast offers only a weak lean toward gains, reinforcing the need to rely on the technical setup rather than predictive models. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| AutoTheta ✓ | 0.180068 |
| AutoETS | 0.278317 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.278321 |
| MSTL | 0.374004 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoTheta
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 33% |
| H-stat | 17.54 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.064 |
| Excess Kurtosis | -1.21 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Healthcare |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 522.657 |
| Revenue per Share | 12.236 |
| Market Cap | 2,759,194,368 |
| Trailing P/E | 10.03 |
| Forward P/E | 13.93 |
| Beta | 1.95 |
| Profit Margins | 10.56% |
| Website | https://www.aveanna.com |
As of Oct. 10, 2026, 10:16 a.m. EDT: Speculators are positioning for a modest upside move, evidenced by significant open interest in out-of-the-money calls at the $15 strike compared to negligible put volume. However, the heavy concentration of put open interest at lower strikes ($7.50 and $10.00) suggests a floor is being established, creating a defined-risk bullish bias rather than a pure momentum play.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | 0.28194726 |
| Address1 | 400 Interstate North Parkway SE |
| Address2 | Suite 1600 |
| All Time High | 14.71 |
| All Time Low | 0.666 |
| Ask | 15.51 |
| Ask Size | 2 |
| Audit Risk | 9 |
| Average Analyst Rating | 1.7 - Buy |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 2,625,620 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 3,035,779 |
| Average Volume | 3,035,779 |
| Average Volume10Days | 2,625,620 |
| Beta | 1.949 |
| Bid | 8.8 |
| Bid Size | 2 |
| Board Risk | 10 |
| Book Value | 1.32 |
| City | Atlanta |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,767,139,200 |
| Compensation Risk | 9 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 12.64 |
| Current Ratio | 1.162 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,790,726,400 |
| Day High | 12.64 |
| Day Low | 12.25 |
| Debt To Equity | 522.657 |
| Display Name | Aveanna Healthcare |
| Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,786,629,600 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,786,629,600 |
| Earnings Growth | 0.385 |
| Earnings Quarterly Growth | 0.491 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,786,624,200 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,793,881,800 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,793,881,800 |
| Ebitda | 311,225,984 |
| Ebitda Margins | 0.119569995 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | 13.348 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 1.596 |
| Enterprise Value | 4,154,358,016 |
| Eps Current Year | 0.82424 |
| Eps Forward | 0.90768 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | 1.26 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Exchange | NMS |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 15 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fax | 770 248 8192 |
| Fifty Day Average | 12.68 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | -0.03999996 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | -0.003154571 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | 28.194725 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 14.71 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -2.0699997 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.14072058 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 5.93 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 6.7100005 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 1.1315347 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 5.93 - 14.71 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 1,619,616,600,000 |
| Float Shares | 104,420,307 |
| Forward Eps | 0.90768 |
| Forward P E | 13.925613 |
| Free Cashflow | 103,812,624 |
| Full Exchange Name | NasdaqGS |
| Full Time Employees | 3,500 |
| Fullday Change | 0.05000019 |
| Fullday Change Percent | 0.4045323 |
| Fullday Price | 12.64 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Governance Epoch Date | 1,790,812,800 |
| Gross Margins | 0.32037 |
| Gross Profits | 833,875,968 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.05638 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.94135004 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 218,290,683 |
| Industry | Medical Care Facilities |
| Industry Disp | Medical Care Facilities |
| Industry Key | medical-care-facilities |
| Ipo Expected Date | 2,021-04-29 |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 0 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,767,398,400 |
| Long Business Summary | Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc., a diversified home care platform company, provides pediatric and adult healthcare services in the United States. Its patient-centered care delivery platform allows patients to remain in their homes and minimizes the overutilization of high-cost care settings, such as hospitals or skilled nursing facilities. The company operates through three segments: Private Duty Services (PDS), Home Health & Hospice (HHH), and Medical Solutions (MS). The PDS segment offers private duty nursing (PDN) services, which include in-home skilled nursing services to medically complex children and adults; nursing services in school settings in which its caregivers accompany patients to school; services to patients in its pediatric day healthcare centers; and non-clinical care, including support services and personal care services; and in-clinic and home-based therapy services, such as physical, occupational, and speech services. The HHH segment provides home health services, including in-home skilled nursing services; physical, occupational, and speech therapy services; and medical social and aide services, as well as hospice services for patients and their families when a life-limiting illness no longer responds to cure-oriented treatments. The MS segment offers enteral nutrition supplies and other products, including formulas, supplies, and pumps to adults and children delivered on a periodic or as-needed basis. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| Long Name | Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 2,759,194,368 |
| Market State | PRE |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_575366670 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,783,123,200 |
| Net Income To Common | 274,761,984 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,798,934,400 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 2,791,937,835 |
| Number Of Analyst Opinions | 10 |
| Open | 12.52 |
| Operating Cashflow | 168,196,992 |
| Operating Margins | 0.12583 |
| Overall Risk | 10 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.0 |
| Phone | 770 441 1580 |
| Previous Close | 12.36 |
| Price Eps Current Year | 15.33534 |
| Price Hint | 2 |
| Price To Book | 9.575757 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 1.0600787 |
| Profit Margins | 0.10556 |
| Quick Ratio | 1.095 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | buy |
| Recommendation Mean | 1.72727 |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | 0.280001 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | 2.26538 |
| Regular Market Day High | 12.64 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 12.25 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 12.25 - 12.64 |
| Regular Market Open | 12.52 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 12.36 |
| Regular Market Price | 12.64 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,792,094,401 |
| Regular Market Volume | 1,856,869 |
| Return On Assets | 0.09685001 |
| Return On Equity | 1.98567 |
| Revenue Growth | 0.137 |
| Revenue Per Share | 12.236 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.16207206 |
| Sector | Healthcare |
| Sector Disp | Healthcare |
| Sector Key | healthcare |
| Share Holder Rights Risk | 6 |
| Shares Outstanding | 218,290,683 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.025999999 |
| Shares Short | 5,668,989 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,788,134,400 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 5,487,469 |
| Short Name | Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.063200004 |
| Short Ratio | 1.72 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | GA |
| Symbol | AVAH |
| Target High Price | 16.0 |
| Target Low Price | 13.0 |
| Target Mean Price | 14.85 |
| Target Median Price | 15.0 |
| Total Cash | 109,229,000 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 0.501 |
| Total Debt | 1,505,289,984 |
| Total Revenue | 2,602,820,096 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | 1.26 |
| Trailing P E | 10.031746 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 8.9883 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | 3.6517 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | 0.4062726 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 1,856,869 |
| Website | https://www.aveanna.com |
| Zip | 30,339 |