Universal Health Services is a medical care facilities business based in the US. Universal Health Services shares (UHS) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $236.90 – an increase of 11.27% over the previous week. Universal Health Services employs 96,700 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $15 billion.
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| Latest market close | $236.90 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $119.35 - $243.25 |
| 50-day moving average | $227.00 |
| 200-day moving average | $187.09 |
| Wall St. target price | $240.34 |
| PE ratio | 15.748 |
| Dividend yield | $0.8 (0.37%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $13.61 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $225.34 from 2024-10-15
| 1 week (2024-10-10) | 5.84% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-09-17) | -2.99% |
| 3 months (2024-07-17) | 22.62% |
| 6 months (2024-04-17) | 40.81% |
| 1 year (2023-10-17) | 76.97% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-10-17) | 138.61% |
| 3 years (2021-10-13) | 74.61% |
| 5 years (2019-10-17) | 55.11% |
Valuing Universal Health Services stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Universal Health Services's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Universal Health Services's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 16x. In other words, Universal Health Services shares trade at around 16x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). 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 low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
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 share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Universal Health Services's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $2 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Universal Health Services's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $15 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 11.17% |
| Gross profit TTM | $5.2 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 6.48% |
| Return on equity TTM | 14.94% |
| Profit margin | 6.22% |
| Book value | $97.21 |
| Market Capitalization | $14.3 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 5.84% of net profits
Recently Universal Health Services has paid out, on average, around 5.84% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.37% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Universal Health Services shareholders could enjoy a 0.37% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Universal Health Services's case, that would currently equate to about $0.8 per share.
While Universal Health Services's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Universal Health Services is investing more in its future growth.
Universal Health Services's most recent dividend payout was on 16 September 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 2 September 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
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.
Over the last 12 months, Universal Health Services's shares have ranged in value from as little as $119.3483 up to $243.25. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Universal Health Services's is 1.279. This would suggest that Universal Health Services's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Universal Health Services, Inc. , through its subsidiaries, owns and operates acute care hospitals, and outpatient and behavioral health care facilities. It operates through Acute Care Hospital Services and Behavioral Health Care Services segments. The company's hospitals offer general and specialty surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics, emergency room care, radiology, oncology, diagnostic and coronary care, pediatric services, pharmacy services, and/or behavioral health services. It also provides commercial health insurance services; and various management services, which include central purchasing, information, finance and control systems, facilities planning, physician recruitment, administrative personnel management, marketing, and public relations services. Universal Health Services, Inc. founded in 1978 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
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