Community health system, the company may have missed analysts' expectations in the third quarter, the senior hospital operating health management association, the purchase plan, and will produce some risk, said citigroup analyst downgraded its rating on the stock.
Gary Taylor, an analyst downgraded, franklin, Tennessee community shares from "buy" to "neutral", and gave up his 12-month target price of the stock from $60 $42.
Community in late July, said it plans to spend $390 million, in order to buy health management company, or HMA, acquisition as federal health care overhaul began to millions of new insured person's health, will create a large chain of hospitals and health systems in the United States.
However, the deal will improve the community health service management risk and legal risk, as well as its debt, Taylor said, in a research note Monday morning.
HMA, headquartered in Naples, Florida, has been received from the U.S. department of health and human services office of inspector general summons, relationship of doctors and emergency operations.
Tyler says, community and HMA, and rural hospitals in the general case, operators are faced with the risk of unique short-term stay in the hospital business was still worsening. July and August to see the hospital patients is much weaker than those seen in the second quarter, analysts expect the two companies miss consensus, is expected in the third quarter of patients without big earnings rebound.
Community health representatives did not immediately respond to comments on the phone from the Associated Press on Monday morning.
Hospital operator shares closed Friday at $39.68, has risen by 29%, so far this year.
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