Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on February 13, 2025.
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DavitaA company that supplies dialysis services, saw the shares that tumbled on Friday after giving a weak prospect in the midst of rising healthcare costs, while large investor Berkshire Hathaway Some shares loaded into a pre -planned agreement.
The health care shares fell by more than 12%on Friday. The company established in Colorado said that its 2025 will be adjusted per share between $ 10.20 and $ 11.30, compared to the average expectation of analysts of $ 11.24 per share, according to LSEG.
The disappointing guidance underlined the increasing costs of patient care due to the closing costs and the costs for health benefits. In the fourth quarter, the company sustained costs for closing its dialysis centers in the US of a total of $ 24.2 million.
Nevertheless, Davitas drew the fourth quarter of $ 2.24 per share on an adapted basis of the estimates of analysts of $ 2.13 per share per LSEG.
Davita's largest institutional investor Berkshire Hathaway sold shares separately on Tuesday 203,091 shares to reduce his interest to 45%, worth almost $ 6.4 billion, showed a Thursday evening of the regulations.
The sale was part of a share purchasing agreement that the two parties reached in April. Davita agreed to buy back shares to reduce the ownership of Berkshire on a quarterly basis to 45%.
Warren Buffett's conglomerate invested for the first time in Davita in 2011. From the end of September, Davita was Berkshire's 10th largest Equity -Holding.
