DAVITA INC.
DAVITA INC. (DVA) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
DaVita's value engine is buybacks, not growth: revenue rose just 6% to $3.42 billion in Q1 2026, but the share count shrinking about 5% a year drove non-GAAP EPS of $2.87 (23.2% above consensus) and raised full-year adjusted EPS guidance to $13.60 to $15.00. The valuation methods disagree: the relative-multiple method calls the price fair at about 13 times operating income while the earnings-power method calls it expensive (nearly 4 times no-growth value), and negative book equity from the leve
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565 institutional managers reported holding DVA in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 90% of the company; the top 10 hold 66%. 119 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Berkshire Hathaway, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, among others. On the short side, 4.6M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 7% of shares outstanding (6 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.
DVA has cut its share count 36.6% over the past five years, spending $5.64B on repurchases. It pays no dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $3.85B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at DVA over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 16 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.
DVA's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-04 | +6.7% | -17.7% |
| 2023-11-08 | +7.4% | +29.3% |
| 2024-02-15 | +8.0% | +5.2% |
| 2024-05-03 | -3.8% | +1.5% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
DVA's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-08 (items 1.01, 2.03, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-05-05 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-02 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-11-25 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2025-10-29 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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