CVS CVS Health Corporation
Healthcare · Healthcare Plans
93.50
-2.27%
About the company
CVS Health Corporation provides health solutions in the United States. The Health Care Benefits segment offers traditional, voluntary, and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, and behavioral health plans; medical management capabilities; Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement plans; prescription drug plans (PDPs); and Medicaid health care management services. It serves employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, health care providers, governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups, and expatriates. The Health Services segment offers pharmacy benefit management solutions, including plan design and administration, formulary management, retail pharmacy network management, specialty and mail-order pharmacy, clinical services, disease management, medical spend management services, and pharmacy and other administrative services. It serves employers, insurance companies, unions, government employee groups, health plans, PDPs, Medicaid managed care plans, CMS, plans offered on public health insurance exchanges, and other sponsors of health benefit plans. The Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness segment sells prescription and over-the-counter drugs, consumer health and beauty products, personal care products, and other general merchandise products. This segment also distributes prescription drugs; and provides related pharmacy consulting and other ancillary services to care facilities and other care settings. It operates online retail pharmacy websites, retail specialty pharmacy stores, and compounding pharmacies, as well as branches for infusion and enteral nutrition services. The company was formerly known as CVS Caremark Corporation and changed its name to CVS Health Corporation in September 2014. CVS Health Corporation was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
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Dividend deep dive
CVS Health Corporation (CVS), operating in the Healthcare Plans sector, currently offers a dividend yield of 2.49%. This yield is below its 5-year average of 3.19% and closer to the lower end of its 5-year range (low of 2.25%, high of 4.22%). The company's dividend safety is evaluated as "at_risk," indicating potential concerns regarding its sustainability based on current metrics. The market capitalization figure is not available in the provided data.
Dividend history
CVS Health does not have an active dividend increase streak. The company paid $1.10 per share in 2014, increasing to $1.40 in 2015, $1.70 in 2016, and then $2.00 per share annually from 2017 through 2021. The dividend per share increased to $2.20 in 2022, $2.42 in 2023, and is projected at $2.66 for both 2024 and 2025. The 3-year dividend compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is 6.53%, while the 5-year CAGR stands at 5.87%.
Dividend safety
CVS Health's dividend payout ratio is 116.67%, indicating the company paid more in dividends than it earned in EPS in the last reporting period. The debt-to-equity ratio is 100.912, suggesting significant leverage.
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