How to buy Universal Health Services (UHS:NYSE) stocks in Canada

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Universal Health Services Inc (UHS) is a publicly traded medical care facilities business based in the US. It opened the day at $197.24 after a previous close of $196.79. During the day the price has varied from a low of $194.01 to a high of $198.36. The latest price was $196.79 (25 minute delay). Universal Health Services is listed on the NYSE and employs 96,700 staff. All prices are listed in US dollars.

How to buy shares in Universal Health Services

Open a brokerage account. Choose from our top broker picks or compare brokers in depth. Then, complete an application.
Fund your account. Add money to your account via bank transfer, debit card or credit card.
Search the platform by ticker symbol. UHS in this case.
Choose an order type. Place a market order or limit order with your preferred number of shares or dollar amount.
Submit the order. It's that simple.

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Is it a good time to buy Universal Health Services stock?

Review technicals and fundamentals to help you determine if now's a good time for you to invest.

Technical analysis

View Universal Health Services's price performance, share price volatility, historical data and technicals.

Use our graph to track the performance of UHS stock over time.

Historical closes compared with the last close of $196.79

1 week (2024-11-13)	-15.96%
1 month (2024-10-20)	-18.52%
3 months (2024-08-20)	-7.83%
6 months (2024-05-20)	18.73%
1 year (2023-11-20)	61.77%
2 years (2022-11-20)	105.70%
3 years (2021-11-20)	49.75%
5 years (2019-11-20)	46.17%

The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.

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Is Universal Health Services under- or over-valued?

Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Universal Health Services P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA.

Universal Health Services's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 17x. In other words, Universal Health Services's stocks trade at around 17x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Universal Health Services's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.87. A PEG ratio over 1 can be interpreted as meaning shares are overvalued at the current rate of growth, or may anticipate an acceleration in growth.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Universal Health Services's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Universal Health Services's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $2 billion ($1 CAD).

The EBITDA is a measure of Universal Health Services's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Frequently asked questions

Universal Health Services's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 15 December 2009. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Universal Health Services shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Universal Health Services shares which in turn could have impacted Universal Health Services's share price.
It's as easy to sell Universal Health Services as it is to buy! Here's how to sell Universal Health Services stocks that you already own.
1. Open your investment app. If you've got one with desktop access, you can log in online
2. Go to your portfolio. This should be in the main menu
3. Find your shares. You may be able to search your portfolio
4. Choose how many you'd like to sell. You'll be able to review the price and see how much you'll receive
5. Sell your Universal Health Services shares. Your investment platform will let you know when your shares are sold

Universal Health Services financials

Revenue TTM	$15.4 billion
Operating margin TTM	9.69%
Gross profit TTM	$5.2 billion
Return on assets TTM	6.82%
Return on equity TTM	16.34%
Profit margin	6.66%
Book value	$100.14
Market capitalisation	$13.3 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

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