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Brookdale Senior Living Inc (NYSE: BKD) closed the day trading at $7.44 down -3.63% from the previous closing price of $7.72. In other words, the price has decreased by -$3.63 from its previous closing price. On the day, 1.78 million shares were traded. BKD stock price reached its highest trading level at $7.7175 during the session, while it also had its lowest trading level at $7.43.
Ratios:
For a better understanding of BKD, let’s look at its different ratios. For the most recent quarter (mrq), Quick Ratio is recorded 0.82 and its Current Ratio is at 0.82. In the meantime, Its Debt-to-Equity ratio is 38.15 whereas as Long-Term Debt/Eq ratio is at 37.01.
Upgrades & Downgrades
In addition, analysts’ ratings and any changes thereto give investors an idea of the stock’s future direction. In the most recent recommendation for this company, Barclays on April 01, 2025, initiated with a Equal Weight rating and assigned the stock a target price of $7.
On October 16, 2024, Jefferies started tracking the stock assigning a Buy rating and target price of $8.
BofA Securities Downgraded its Neutral to Underperform on October 07, 2024, whereas the target price for the stock was revised from $7.75 to $6.
Insider Transactions:
The insider trade also gives investors a glimpse into the future direction of stock prices, which can be beneficial to investors. A recent insider transaction in this stock occurred on Jul 10 ’25 when Lucinda Baier bought 165,370 shares for $7.50 per share.
HICKS GEORGE T bought 25,000 shares of BKD for $186,375 on Jul 10 ’25. On Jul 09 ’25, another insider, Lucinda Baier, who serves as the Officer of the company, bought 128,293 shares for $7.07 each.
Valuation Measures:
Investors should consider key stock statistics when deciding whether to invest or divest. In the wake of the recent closing price, BKD now has a Market Capitalization of 1743549184 and an Enterprise Value of 7102240256. For the stock, the TTM Price-to-Sale (P/S) ratio is 0.55 while its Price-to-Book (P/B) ratio in mrq is 11.87. Its current Enterprise Value per Revenue stands at 2.355 whereas that against EBITDA is 16.238.
Stock Price History:
The Beta on a monthly basis for BKD is 0.88, which has changed by -0.06883603 over the last 52 weeks, in comparison to a change of 0.16564083 over the same period for the S&P500. Over the past 52 weeks, BKD has reached a high of $8.12, while it has fallen to a 52-week low of $4.45. The 50-Day Moving Average of the stock is 6.52%, while the 200-Day Moving Average is calculated to be 24.23%.
Shares Statistics:
Over the past 3-months, BKD traded about 2.94M shares per day on average, while over the past 10 days, BKD traded about 2525110 shares per day. A total of 234.00M shares are outstanding, with a floating share count of 207.32M. Insiders hold about 11.53% of the company’s shares, while institutions hold 89.97% stake in the company. Shares short for BKD as of 1751241600 were 11128096 with a Short Ratio of 3.79, compared to 1748563200 on 8702704. Therefore, it implies a Short% of Shares Outstanding of 11128096 and a Short% of Float of 4.8.
Dividends & Splits
Against a Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of 0.0
