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How to buy Henry Schein (HSIC) stocks in Canada

Learn how to easily invest in Henry Schein stocks.

Henry Schein

NASDAQ: HSIC-USD

About 4 hours ago

$72.76

+$0.72 (+1%)

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Henry Schein is a medical distribution business based in the US. Henry Schein shares (HSIC.US) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $72.04 – an increase of 1.67% over the previous day. Henry Schein employs 25,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $12.3 billion.

How to buy shares in Henry Schein

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Is it a good time to buy Henry Schein stock?

Only you can make the decision on the time to leap... but here's some supporting information and analysis.

Use our graph to track the performance of HSIC stocks over time.

Share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Henry Schein's shares have ranged in value from as little as $60.01 up to $85.39. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Henry Schein's is 0.86. This would suggest that Henry Schein's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Historical closes compared with the last close of $72.04

1 week (2024-04-15)	1.15%
1 month (2024-03-21)	-1.48%
3 months (2024-01-22)	-2.91%
6 months (2023-10-22)	6.87%
1 year (2023-04-20)	-14.90%
3 years (2021-04-22)	-2.94%
5 years (2019-04-22)	13.88%

The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.

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Is Henry Schein under- or over-valued?

Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Henry Schein P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA

Henry Schein's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 22x. In other words, Henry Schein stocks trade at around 22x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Henry Schein's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.6515. A PEG ratio over 1 can be interpreted as meaning shares are overvalued at the current rate of growth, or may anticipate an acceleration in growth.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Henry Schein's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Henry Schein's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $943 million ($1.3 billion CAD).

The EBITDA is a measure of a Henry Schein's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Frequently asked questions

Henry Schein's shares were split on a 1275:1000 basis on 7 February 2019. So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1275 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Henry Schein shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 21.6% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Henry Schein shares which in turn could have impacted Henry Schein's share price.
It's as easy to sell Henry Schein as it is to buy! Here's how to sell Henry Schein stocks that you already own.
1. Open your investment app. If you've got one with desktop access, you can log in online
2. Go to your portfolio. This should be in the main menu
3. Find your shares. You may be able to search your portfolio
4. Choose how many you'd like to sell. You'll be able to review the price and see how much you'll receive
5. Sell your Henry Schein shares. Your investment platform will let you know when your shares are sold

Henry Schein financials

Revenue TTM	$12.3 billion
Operating margin TTM	1.39%
Gross profit TTM	$3.8 billion
Return on assets TTM	4.53%
Return on equity TTM	8.88%
Profit margin	3.37%
Book value	$28.28
Market capitalisation	$9 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

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