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DaVita Inc. (DVA)

Healthcare | Medical Care Facilities | Denver, United States | NYSE
150.51 USD +1.18 (0.790%) ⇧ (April 21, 2026, 12:04 p.m. EDT)

Short-term: ★★☆☆☆ | Long-term: ★★★★☆ | Dividends: ☆☆☆☆☆
Hot Take | April 19, 2026, 12:29 a.m. EDT

DaVita presents a classic 'short-term trap, long-term value' scenario. The stock is technically strong amidst post-earnings momentum, with prudent speculators loading calls to retest past highs near $160-$190. However, the sheer scale of long-dated put accumulation and the lack of dividend yield make it an inappropriate play for a standard income or naive short-term trade; it lacks the safety net of yield. The risk/reward leans negative for the next few months due to the pricing in of near-term highs, but positive for the multi-year horizon given the cheap valuation relative to growth.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
MSTL ✓0.319874
AutoETS0.325419
AutoARIMA0.325421
AutoTheta0.355015

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: MSTL

Forecast Reliability
Score 32%
H-stat 1.53
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.000
Excess Kurtosis 7.32
Attribute Value
Sector Healthcare
Debt to Equity Ratio 1111.353
Revenue per Share 183.802
Market Cap 10,061,443,072
Trailing P/E 15.83
Forward P/E 9.18
Beta 0.92
Profit Margins 5.47%
Website https://www.davita.com

As of April 19, 2026, 12:29 a.m. EDT: Options data reveals a sharp divergence in sentiment between near-term and longer-dated expirations. For the 2026-04-17 (near-term) and 2026-05-15 (mid-term) expirations, Call OI swelling heavily at key resistance levels (155, 165, 190), signaling strong buy-to-open volume and sentiment clustering above the current price. Conversely, Put OI is aggressive in the longer-dated 2026-12-18 expiry, with significant activity at downside strikes (125, 180), creating a 'long-term put wall.' This structure suggests analysts/speculators view the immediate future as bullish (targeting $160-190), but are hedging tail risk or expecting mean reversion over the next 12 months. IV spikes on deep ITM puts in long-dated data hint at volatility concern far out, contradicting near-term call appreciation.


Info Dump

Attribute Value
52 Week Change 0.10639405
Address1 2,000 16th Street
All Time High 179.6
All Time Low 0.6875
Ask 150.66
Ask Size 100
Audit Risk 7
Average Analyst Rating 2.9 - Hold
Average Daily Volume10 Day 596,770
Average Daily Volume3 Month 1,035,386
Average Volume 1,035,386
Average Volume10Days 596,770
Beta 0.915
Bid 150.37
Bid Size 300
Board Risk 2
Book Value -9.498
City Denver
Compensation As Of Epoch Date 1,735,603,200
Compensation Risk 1
Country United States
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Current Price 150.51
Current Ratio 1.292
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Date Short Interest 1,774,915,200
Day High 151.51
Day Low 149.46
Debt To Equity 1,111.353
Display Name DaVita
Earnings Call Timestamp End 1,778,014,800
Earnings Call Timestamp Start 1,778,014,800
Earnings Growth 0.065
Earnings Quarterly Growth -0.097
Earnings Timestamp 1,778,011,200
Earnings Timestamp End 1,778,011,200
Earnings Timestamp Start 1,778,011,200
Ebitda 2,751,162,880
Ebitda Margins 0.20165001
Enterprise To Ebitda 8.708
Enterprise To Revenue 1.756
Enterprise Value 23,958,353,920
Eps Current Year 14.12149
Eps Forward 16.39863
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 9.51
Esg Populated 0
Exchange NYQ
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 150.0392
Fifty Day Average Change 0.47079468
Fifty Day Average Change Percent 0.003137811
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 10.639405
Fifty Two Week High 159.42
Fifty Two Week High Change -8.910004
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.055890124
Fifty Two Week Low 101.0
Fifty Two Week Low Change 49.509995
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.49019796
Fifty Two Week Range 101.0 - 159.42
Financial Currency USD
First Trade Date Milliseconds 815,149,800,000
Float Shares 35,218,296
Forward Eps 16.39863
Forward P E 9.1782055
Free Cashflow 1,053,226,368
Full Exchange Name NYSE
Full Time Employees 78,000
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Governance Epoch Date 1,775,001,600
Gross Margins 0.32255
Gross Profits 4,400,592,896
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Held Percent Insiders 0.50441
Held Percent Institutions 0.5281
Implied Shares Outstanding 66,849,000
Industry Medical Care Facilities
Industry Disp Medical Care Facilities
Industry Key medical-care-facilities
Ir Website http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=76556&p=irol-irhome
Is Earnings Date Estimate 0
Language en-US
Last Fiscal Year End 1,767,139,200
Last Split Date 1,378,684,800
Last Split Factor 2:1
Long Business Summary DaVita Inc. provides kidney dialysis services for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure in the United States. The company operates kidney dialysis centers and provides related lab services in outpatient dialysis centers. It also offers outpatient, hospital inpatient, and home-based hemodialysis dialysis services; operates clinical laboratories that provide routine laboratory tests for dialysis and other physician-prescribed laboratory tests for ESRD patients; and management and administrative services to outpatient dialysis centers. In addition, the company offers integrated care and disease management services to patients in risk-based and other integrated care arrangements; clinical research programs; physician services; and comprehensive kidney care services. Further, it engages in the transplant software business. The company was formerly known as DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. and changed its name to DaVita Inc. in September 2016. DaVita Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Long Name DaVita Inc.
Market us_market
Market Cap 10,061,443,072
Market State REGULAR
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_35644
Most Recent Quarter 1,767,139,200
Net Income To Common 721,803,008
Next Fiscal Year End 1,798,675,200
Non Diluted Market Cap 9,982,561,170
Number Of Analyst Opinions 7
Open 150.3
Operating Cashflow 1,886,499,968
Operating Margins 0.15228
Overall Risk 1
Payout Ratio 0.0
Peg Ratio 0.55
Phone 720 631 2100
Previous Close 149.33
Price Eps Current Year 10.658224
Price Hint 2
Price To Book -15.846493
Price To Sales Trailing12 Months 0.7374765
Profit Margins 0.05474
Quick Ratio 1.165
Quote Source Name Nasdaq Real Time Price
Quote Type EQUITY
Recommendation Key hold
Recommendation Mean 2.875
Region US
Regular Market Change 1.1799927
Regular Market Change Percent 0.7901913
Regular Market Day High 151.51
Regular Market Day Low 149.46
Regular Market Day Range 149.46 - 151.51
Regular Market Open 150.3
Regular Market Previous Close 149.33
Regular Market Price 150.51
Regular Market Time 1,776,787,487
Regular Market Volume 126,718
Return On Assets 0.0732
Return On Equity 0.64848
Revenue Growth 0.099
Revenue Per Share 183.802
Sand P52 Week Change 0.34445214
Sector Healthcare
Sector Disp Healthcare
Sector Key healthcare
Share Holder Rights Risk 3
Shares Outstanding 66,849,000
Shares Percent Shares Out 0.0925
Shares Short 6,182,715
Shares Short Previous Month Date 1,772,150,400
Shares Short Prior Month 6,048,801
Short Name DaVita Inc.
Short Percent Of Float 0.2023
Short Ratio 6.94
Source Interval 15
State CO
Symbol DVA
Target High Price 190.0
Target Low Price 126.0
Target Mean Price 151.7143
Target Median Price 156.0
Total Cash 700,740,992
Total Cash Per Share 10.49
Total Debt 12,874,331,136
Total Revenue 13,643,069,440
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0
Trailing Eps 9.51
Trailing P E 15.826497
Trailing Peg Ratio 0.555
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 132.4514
Two Hundred Day Average Change 18.058594
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.13634129
Type Disp Equity
Volume 126,718
Website https://www.davita.com
Zip 80,202