Analysts Shrug at Stock Selloff Following CVS Earnings Report
Although CVS Health Corp.’s stock price dropped about 5% after the company reported its fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 financial results on Feb. 16, equities analysts seemed to be unshaken in their view that the firm — which owns health insurer Aetna — has strong fundamentals.
For the fourth quarter of 2020, CVS’s net income of $975 million was down 44% compared with the prior-year period, a result the company partially attributed to lower operating income driven by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its Health Care Benefits and Retail/Long-Term Care segments. For the full year 2020, CVS’s operating income and net income increased relative to 2019, fueled in part by a $307 million payout from the Affordable Care Act’s risk corridors program and a $269 million gain from the sale of the firm’s workers’ compensation business.
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