What Happened?
Shares of healthcare company Surgery Partners (NASDAQ: SGRY) jumped 2.7% in the morning session after Cantor Fitzgerald reiterated its "Overweight" rating and an $18.00 price target on the stock.
The firm's analyst acknowledged some slight negative trends in the company's second-quarter ambulatory surgery center and outpatient nursing data. However, the overall outlook remained positive. Despite potential operational headwinds, other analysts also predict Surgery Partners will be profitable this year, with net income expected to grow.
The shares were trading at $17.15, up 3.3% from the previous close.
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What Is The Market Telling Us
Surgery Partners’s shares are somewhat volatile and have had 11 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today’s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business.
The biggest move we wrote about over the last year was 8 months ago when the stock dropped 23.8% on the news that it reported third-quarter results that missed analyst expectations for profit and lowered its full-year 2025 financial forecast.
The company's adjusted earnings per share of $0.13 fell short of consensus estimates. While revenue of $821.5 million was roughly in line with expectations, investors focused on the dimmer outlook for the remainder of the year. Surgery Partners reduced its full-year revenue projection to a range of $3.275 billion to $3.30 billion and its adjusted EBITDA guidance to between $535 million and $540 million.
Surgery Partners is up 12.4% since the beginning of the year, but at $17.15 per share, it is still trading 28.1% below its 52-week high of $23.84 from August 2025. Despite the year-to-date gain, investors who bought $1,000 worth of Surgery Partners’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at only $262.50.
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