PFMT Stock: 16 Things to Know About Penny Stock Performant Financial as Shares Rocket Higher

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Performant Financial (NASDAQ:PFMT) stock is soaring higher on Tuesday after the company announced plans to focus on its healthcare services.

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Here’s everything investors need to know about PFMT and the recent news affecting the penny stock.

  • Performant Financial announced after markets closed yesterday that it is focusing more on its healthcare operations.
  • That includes giving these operations priority from future investments.
  • This has it aiming to achieve long-term growth and profitability for the business.
  • The company notes that it already saw revenue of $68.5 million from its healthcare business in 2020.
  • That’s a 58% jump compared to revenue reported by its healthcare operations for the full year of 2019.
  • At the same time, Performant Financial revealed its expectations for revenue in 2021.
  • PFMT is expecting revenue for the year to range from $83 million to $90 million.
  • To go along with this news, the company also announced a deal to sell off certain assets.
  • This will have it selling non-healthcare-related assets to “a buyer that specializes in outsourced receivables solutions.”
  • Performant Financial is a company with a focus on reducing waste for certain businesses by identifying improper payments and defaulted assets.
  • Its business includes healthcare, student loans, and government clients.
  • It plans to fulfill current non-healthcare contracts but won’t start new ones or renew old ones.
  • The company believes that healthcare is its best bet, which is why it’s focusing it over its other businesses.
  • PFMT stock is seeing heavy trading on yesterday’s news.
  • That has more than 96 million shares changing hands as of this writing.
  • For comparison, its daily average trading volume is about 720,500 shares.

PFMT stock was up 40.8% as of Tuesday morning.

Performant Financial isn’t the only penny stock seeing a boost in trading today.

A handful of other penny stocks are also seeing an increase in interest from investors. Among them are

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On the date of publication, William White did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article.

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