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Ardent Health, Inc.

ARDTNYSE

Healthcare · Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, NEC · DE · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

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Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY25FY24FY23FY22
Revenue$6.32B$5.97B$5.41B$5.13B
Operating income
Net income$135.8M$210.3M$53.9M$188.9M
Total assets$5.29B$4.96B$4.73B
Total liabilities$3.61B$3.43B$3.65B
Equity$1.29B$1.13B$670.9M$1.04B
EPS (diluted)$0.96$1.58$0.43$1.50
Shares out.142.8M142.7M0126.1M

Reported figures from the company's SEC filings (XBRL). Blank where a line item isn't cleanly tagged — never estimated.

Key ratios

from filings · FY2025
Operating margin
Net margin
2.1%
Return on equity
10.5%
Return on assets
2.6%
Return on capital (ROCE)
Liabilities / assets
68.1%
Debt / equity
2.80×
Book value / share
$9.02
Revenue growth (YoY)
6.0%
Net income growth (YoY)
−35.4%

Computed from the company's own SEC figures — no market price, so these are facts, not a valuation. Book value per share is reported equity ÷ shares; it is not the stock price.

Financial health

forensic scores · FY2025
Accruals / assets
6.3%clean
Piotroski F-Score
5/8mixed

Altman Z″is a textbook bankruptcy-distress score from book values only (>2.6 safe · 1.1–2.6 grey · <1.1 distress). Accruals = (net income − operating cash flow) ÷ assets; persistently high accruals are an earnings-quality red flag. Beneish M-Scoreis an eight-ratio screen comparing this year with last (M > −1.78 = elevated manipulation-risk screen, not proof). Piotroski F-Scorecounts how many of nine fundamental-health checks pass (shown as passed / applicable; we use operating margin and total liabilities as documented proxies where the exact input isn't XBRL-tagged). Computed from SEC filings — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Quality score

EDS Score
70
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 50Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 67

Our own multi-factor score from free SEC data — profitability, growth, financial strength, earnings quality, and event/ownership catalysts. No market price and no licensed model: each axis is the share of source-backed checks it passes. Descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Signs

3 good
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • Positive operating cash flow
  • Clean earnings (low accruals)

Derived from the company's own SEC figures (fundamentals, forensic scores, filing discipline) — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Short interest

FINRA · bi-monthly
SettlementShares shortDays to coverΔ vs prior
May 15, 20262.9M6.0-7.3%
Apr 30, 20263.1M8.7+5.8%
Apr 15, 20262.9M9.3+3.1%
Mar 31, 20262.8M7.8+2.3%
Mar 13, 20262.8M6.2+4.5%

Shares sold short as reported to FINRA. Days-to-cover = short shares ÷ average daily volume — higher means more potential squeeze pressure.

Material events

SEC Form 8-K · most recent

Events the company reported on Form 8-K, labelled by the SEC item code it filed under — its own classification, not our interpretation.

Recent SEC filings

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