Healthcare Services Group, Inc (NASDAQ:HCSG) reported on Tuesday that its profit moved up 15% in the Q2.
The offer of housekeeping and food services to hospitals and nursing homes reported that its profit moved up to $11.3 million or 17 cents a share, from $9.8 million or 15 cents a share. The company reported that revenue moved up 26% to $267.1 million from $211.5 million.
FactSet analysts forecasted the corporation to announce a profit of 17 cents a share and revenue of $259.3 million.
Healthcare Services Group also boosted its quarterly dividend to 16.375 cents from 16.25 cents. The dividend is due Aug 24 to shareholders of book on July 27.
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Healthcare Services Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:HCSG) on July 11, 2012 increased +7.39% to the closing price of $21.08. The overall volume in the last trading session was 1.11 million shares. Its fifty two week range was $12.16-$22.08. The total market capitalization remained $1.42 billion.
HCSG is ahead its 52 week low with +77.75% and going forward from its 52 week high price with -3.79%. HCSG last month stock price volatility remained 3.05%. In its share capital HCSG has 67.15 million outstanding shares among them 63.74 million shares have been floated in market exchange. HCSG stock institutional ownership remained 85.18% while insider ownership included 0.20%.
The stock price of HCSG is moving forward from its 20 days moving average with +9.47% and remote positively from 50 days moving average with +6.66%. HCSG current year earnings per share experienced an addition with 9.84% while its current quarter performance remained -1.36%. Company’s beta coefficient included 0.60. Beta factors measures the amount of market risk associated with market trade.
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