Jefferies Sticks to Its Buy Rating for Cerner (CERN)


In a report issued on July 30, David Windley from Jefferies maintained a Buy rating on Cerner (CERN), with a price target of $88.00. The company’s shares closed last Monday at $71.98.

According to TipRanks.com, Windley is a top 100 analyst with an average return of 19.3% and a 74.3% success rate. Windley covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as West Pharmaceutical Services, Molina Healthcare, and IQVIA Holdings.

Cerner has an analyst consensus of Moderate Buy, with a price target consensus of $77.78, an 11.1% upside from current levels. In a report issued on July 30, Canaccord Genuity also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $81.00 price target.

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The company has a one-year high of $80.90 and a one-year low of $53.08. Currently, Cerner has an average volume of 2.01M.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 55 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of CERN in relation to earlier this year.

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Cerner Corp. designs, develops, markets, installs, hosts and supports health care information technology, health care devices, hardware and content solutions for health care organizations and consumers. The company also provides value-added services, including implementation & training, remote hosting, operational management services, revenue cycle services, support and maintenance, health care data analysis, clinical process optimization, transaction processing, employer health centers, employee wellness programs and third party administrator services for employer-based health plans. It operates through the following segments: Domestic and International. The Domestic segment includes revenue contributions and expenditures associated with business activity in the United States. The International segment includes revenue contributions and expenditures linked to business activity in Aruba, Australia, Austria, the Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Guam, India, Ireland, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. The company was founded by Neal L. Patterson, Clifford W. Illig and Paul N. Gorup in 1979 and is headquartered in North Kansas City, MO.

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