DaVita Inc. (DVA) earnings on May 5, 2026
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Missed
DVA shares surged dramatically after earnings, jumping 23.54% as investors reacted to positive news. This strong gain came as a surprise given that analysts had expected weakness before the results.
DVA price around the earnings
194.08
Change: +23.5%
2026-05-06, 19:59 UTC
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Missed
- Thesis published
Neutral outlook, limited upside, and weak recent performance.
While some online chatter is positive, experts are neutral on this stock, seeing limited potential for price increases. Recent price trends have been weak.
Context analyzed before publication
- Summary
- Neutral outlook, limited upside, and weak recent performance.
- Reasoning
- While some online chatter is positive, experts are neutral on this stock, pointing to a limited optimistic scenario. Recent price trends have been weak.
- Playbook
- Given the neutral analyst sentiment and lack of strong price momentum, the scenario suggests waiting for more positive contexts.
- Trend
- Outlook deteriorating over the past three sessions.
Analysts
Drivers
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Analysts
Neutral
The general analyst recommendation for this stock is to hold, with a price target that points to a very limited optimistic scenario. There have been no recent changes to analyst recommendations.
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Hold
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 2.88
- Analysts covering the stock
- 7
- Average price target
- 151.71
- Lowest price target
- 126
- Highest price target
- 190
- Upside to price target
- 1.2%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- -9.7%
- Revenue growth
- 9.9%
- Forward EPS
- 16.4
- Trailing EPS
- 9.5
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 0
- Strong buy: 0
- Buy: 1
- Hold: 6
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 1
- Strong buy
- 0
- Buy
- 1
- Hold
- 6
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 1
News and sentiment
Drivers
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News & sentiment
Neutral
There is no recent news available for this stock. Online discussions are positive but occur with low market review volume, making them unreliable indicators of investor sentiment.
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
There is no news coverage available for this event.
Technicals
Drivers
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Technical
Negative
The stock has shown weaker performance compared to the broader market over the last 30 days. It is currently market review in the middle range between its recent high and low prices.
Evidence
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.1%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -6.0%
- 14-day change (14d)
- -0.4%
- 30-day change
- -1.2%
- 30-day relative strength
- -5.0%
- Benchmark change
- +3.8%
- Nearest support
- 143.19
- Nearest resistance
- 157.15
- Volume accumulation ratio
- 0.74
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- -2.0%
- February 2, 2026: actual EPS 3.4 vs estimate 3.19 (surprise +6.5%)
- October 29, 2025: actual EPS 2.51 vs estimate 3.17 (surprise -20.9%)
- August 5, 2025: actual EPS 2.95 vs estimate 2.75 (surprise +7.3%)
- May 12, 2025: actual EPS 2 vs estimate 2.02 (surprise -0.9%)
Expected move
There is no implied-move data available for this event.
Reactions over its last 19 earnings
- Median move
- 7.1%
- 75th percentile move
- 10.2%
- 90th percentile move
- 14.4%
- Up / down moves
- 8 / 11
- Average up move
- +8.2%
- Average down move
- -8.1%
Monitoring and close
What DaVita Inc. reported
There is no monitoring data available for this event.
Pre-market second reading after the results
There is no second reading available for this event.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Missed
- Consolidated
- +23.5%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 0%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 23.5%