Universal Health Services (UHS) Stock Price, News & Analysis

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Universal Health Services in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" UHS shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in UHS, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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13 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Universal Health Services' stock. Their UHS share price targets range from $152.00 to $203.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $180.60 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.7% from the stock's current price.
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Universal Health Services' stock was trading at $152.44 at the start of the year. Since then, UHS stock has increased by 9.0% and is now trading at $166.09.
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Universal Health Services saw a increase in short interest in the month of April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,970,000 shares, an increase of 34.9% from the March 31st total of 1,460,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 596,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.3 days. Currently, 3.4% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July 23rd 2024.
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Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE:UHS) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, April, 24th. The health services provider reported $3.70 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.14 by $0.56. The health services provider had revenue of $3.84 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.78 billion. Universal Health Services had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 13.43% and a net margin of 5.57%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 10.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $2.34 EPS.
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Universal Health Services announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 17th. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 1st will be given a dividend of $0.20 per share on Friday, March 15th. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.48%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 29th.
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Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.48%. The dividend payout ratio is 6.78%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, UHS will have a dividend payout ratio of 5.43% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) stock in their portfolio include WBI BullBear Quality 3000 ETF (WBIL), WBI BullBear Value 3000 ETF (WBIF), SPDR S&P Health Care Services ETF (XHS), Counterpoint Quantitative Equity ETF (CPAI), iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF (IHF), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Health Care ETF (RYH), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Health Care ETF (RSPH) and First Trust Health Care AlphaDEX Fund (FXH).

Universal Health Services issued an update on its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Tuesday, February, 27th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 13.000-14.000 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 11.750. The company issued revenue guidance of $15.4 billion-$15.7 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $15.0 billion.

237 employees have rated Universal Health Services Chief Executive Officer Alan B. Miller on Glassdoor.com. Alan B. Miller has an approval rating of 63% among the company's employees. This puts Alan B. Miller in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Universal Health Services investors own include UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Netflix (NFLX), Broadcom (AVGO), Alibaba Group (BABA), Bank of America (BAC), Walt Disney (DIS), Intel (INTC), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), NVIDIA (NVDA) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM).

Universal Health Services' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.25%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.19%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.10%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.06%), Deroy & Devereaux Private Investment Counsel Inc. (0.05%) and Amalgamated Bank (0.03%). Insiders that own company stock include Eileen C Mcdonnell, Eileen C Mcdonnell, Elliot J Md Mba Sussman, Lawrence S Gibbs, Marc D Miller, Marc W Booth, Matthew Jay Peterson, Steve Filton and Warren J Nimetz.
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