CVS Health Valuation

Is CVS undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

4/6

Valuation Score 4/6

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Peers

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Industry

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio

  • Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of CVS when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Discounted Cash Flow
Simply Wall St
CHF 192.93
Fair Value
79.0% undervalued intrinsic discount
25
Number of Analysts

Below Fair Value: CVS (CHF40.43) is trading below our estimate of fair value (CHF192.93)

Significantly Below Fair Value: CVS is trading below fair value by more than 20%.


Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for CVS?

Key metric: As CVS is profitable we use its Price-To-Earnings Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Earnings ratio for CVS. This is calculated by dividing CVS's market cap by their current earnings.
What is CVS's PE Ratio?
PE Ratio13.2x
EarningsUS$5.02b
Market CapUS$66.22b

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Peers

How does CVS's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PE ratio for CVS vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PEEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average40.6x
ALC Alcon
35.9x10.2%CHF 38.2b
STMN Straumann Holding
68.3x21.4%CHF 19.7b
SOON Sonova Holding
31.9x10.2%CHF 18.0b
CI Cigna Group
26x21.0%US$79.0b
CVS CVS Health
13.2x16.3%CHF 66.2b

Price-To-Earnings vs Peers: CVS is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (13.2x) compared to the peer average (40.6x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Industry

How does CVS's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the European Healthcare Industry?

3 CompaniesPrice / EarningsEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
CVS 13.2xIndustry Avg. 19.7xNo. of Companies8PE01020304050+
3 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Earnings vs Industry: CVS is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (13.2x) compared to the European Healthcare industry average (19.7x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is CVS's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

CVS PE Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PE Ratio13.2x
Fair PE Ration/a

Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate CVS's Price-To-Earnings Fair Ratio for valuation analysis.


Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

The above table shows the analyst CVS forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
Currentn/a
CHF 59.27
0%
16.9%CHF 84.88CHF 43.82n/a25
Jan ’26CHF 40.43
CHF 59.66
+47.6%
16.2%CHF 83.74CHF 43.23n/a25
Dec ’25n/a
CHF 60.57
0%
13.5%CHF 82.42CHF 50.51n/a25
Nov ’25CHF 50.23
CHF 60.16
+19.8%
14.4%CHF 80.56CHF 51.11n/a25
Oct ’25n/a
CHF 56.61
0%
14.0%CHF 78.42CHF 49.75n/a25
Sep ’25n/a
CHF 57.02
0%
13.0%CHF 78.84CHF 50.02n/a25
Aug ’25CHF 55.91
CHF 59.88
+7.1%
13.1%CHF 82.21CHF 51.27n/a25
Jul ’25n/a
CHF 62.00
0%
13.4%CHF 83.45CHF 52.94n/a26
Jun ’25n/a
CHF 62.27
0%
13.5%CHF 83.91CHF 53.23n/a26
May ’25n/a
CHF 77.84
0%
10.8%CHF 92.83CHF 55.15n/a26
Apr ’25n/a
CHF 79.32
0%
7.5%CHF 91.33CHF 68.28n/a26
Mar ’25n/a
CHF 79.36
0%
7.0%CHF 91.08CHF 68.09n/a25
Feb ’25CHF 64.42
CHF 78.72
+22.2%
7.4%CHF 90.30CHF 69.46n/a24
Jan ’25CHF 66.87
CHF 75.64
+13.1%
8.6%CHF 88.98CHF 65.02CHF 40.4324
Dec ’24n/a
CHF 77.69
0%
9.2%CHF 91.91CHF 67.17n/a23
Nov ’24n/a
CHF 81.88
0%
10.4%CHF 99.86CHF 68.99CHF 50.2323
Oct ’24n/a
CHF 83.74
0%
10.3%CHF 100.71CHF 69.58n/a24
Sep ’24n/a
CHF 81.78
0%
9.8%CHF 97.45CHF 67.33n/a24
Aug ’24CHF 65.77
CHF 82.54
+25.5%
12.2%CHF 105.03CHF 63.02CHF 55.9123
Jul ’24n/a
CHF 89.37
0%
16.6%CHF 128.66CHF 68.38n/a24
Jun ’24n/a
CHF 90.77
0%
16.6%CHF 129.52CHF 68.84n/a23
May ’24n/a
CHF 97.85
0%
13.3%CHF 128.16CHF 77.07n/a22
Apr ’24n/a
CHF 103.50
0%
10.0%CHF 130.71CHF 86.83n/a21
Mar ’24n/a
CHF 106.24
0%
9.4%CHF 133.21CHF 88.49n/a21
Feb ’24n/a
CHF 107.15
0%
6.5%CHF 119.19CHF 91.68CHF 64.4223
Jan ’24n/a
CHF 110.83
0%
4.9%CHF 121.69CHF 99.23CHF 66.8723
Analyst Price Target
Consensus Narrative from 25 Analysts
CHF 49.89
Fair Value
19.0% undervalued intrinsic discount
25
Number of Analysts

Analyst Forecast: Target price is more than 20% higher than the current share price, but analysts are not within a statistically confident range of agreement.


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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2025/01/20 05:26
End of Day Share Price 2024/12/27 00:00
Earnings2024/09/30
Annual Earnings2023/12/31

Data Sources

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Company Financials10 years
  • Income statement
  • Cash flow statement
  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
  • Forecast financials
  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
  • Stock prices
  • Dividends, Splits and Actions
Ownership10 years
  • Top shareholders
  • Insider trading
Management10 years
  • Leadership team
  • Board of directors
Key Developments10 years
  • Company announcements

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Analyst Sources

CVS Health Corporation is covered by 62 analysts. 24 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Harshit GuptaAccountability Research Corporation
Christopher GrajaArgus Research Company
Samuel HudsonAtlantic Equities LLP