CVS Health
About: CVS Health offers a diverse set of healthcare services. Its roots are in its retail pharmacy operations, where it operates over 9,000 stores primarily in the US. CVS is also a large pharmacy benefit manager (acquired through Caremark), processing about 2 billion adjusted claims annually. It operates a top-tier health insurer (acquired through Aetna) through which it serves about 27 million medical members. The acquisition of Oak Street Health adds primary care services to the mix, which could have significant synergies with all existing business lines.
Employees: 300,000
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
20% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $2.05B | Put options by funds: $1.7B
20% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 182 | Existing positions closed: 152
2.03% more ownership
Funds ownership: 84.39% [Q1] → 86.42% (+2.03%) [Q2]
5% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $72.1B [Q1] → $75.4B (+$3.29B) [Q2]
0% more funds holding
Funds holding: 1,729 [Q1] → 1,730 (+1) [Q2]
14% less funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 37 [Q1] → 32 (-5) [Q2]
14% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 624 | Existing positions reduced: 723
Research analyst outlook
7 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
7 analyst ratings
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Bernstein
Lance Wilkes
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$77
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Market Perform
Maintained
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5 Sep 2025 |
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Barclays
Andrew Mok
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$87
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Overweight
Maintained
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4 Sep 2025 |
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Cantor Fitzgerald
Sarah James
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$78
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Overweight
Reiterated
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26 Aug 2025 |
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UBS
Kevin Caliendo
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$79
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Buy
Upgraded
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18 Aug 2025 |
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Baird
Michael Ha
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$82
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Outperform
Upgraded
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14 Aug 2025 |
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Morgan Stanley
Erin Wright
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$82
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Overweight
Maintained
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1 Aug 2025 |
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Jefferies
Brian Tanquilut
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$80
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Buy
Maintained
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30 Jun 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 35 articles about CVS published over the past 30 days
