Covista Inc.
At today's price, Covista Inc. (CVSA) is priced for -0.4% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Covista runs the country's largest network of nursing and healthcare degree programs (Chamberlain, Walden, Ross), and the demand driver is structural: a chronic shortage of nurses and clinicians that the company's enrollment of more than 100,000 students keeps feeding. • The clearest risk is regulatory and political: roughly the entire revenue base flows through federally backed student aid, so any tightening of Title IV eligibility, gainful-employment rules, or loan availability hits the top
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341 institutional managers reported holding CVSA in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 38 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, FMR (Fidelity), among others. On the short side, 1.6M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (6.1 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
CVSA has cut its share count 31% over the past five years, spending $962.21M on repurchases. It pays no dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $714.96M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at CVSA over the trailing three years: 2025: 3 buys totaling $229k; 2026: 4 buys totaling $3.75M. 23 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
CVSA's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-11 | -1.1% | +0.7% |
| 2023-10-27 | +12.4% | +18.1% |
| 2024-01-31 | +5.2% | +1.8% |
| 2024-05-03 | +18.9% | +13.3% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CVSA's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-07 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-09 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-03-03 (items 1.01, 1.02, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-02-24 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-06 (items 5.03, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: July 18, 2026
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