Universal Health Services Stock Forecast, Price & News

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Universal Health Services in the last twelve months. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 3 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" Universal Health Services stock. 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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12 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Universal Health Services' stock. Their UHS stock forecasts range from $108.00 to $185.00. On average, they anticipate Universal Health Services' share price to reach $139.92 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 32.0% from the stock's current price.
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Universal Health Services' stock was trading at $129.66 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, UHS shares have decreased by 18.3% and is now trading at $105.97.
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Universal Health Services saw a increase in short interest in May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totaling 3,600,000 shares, an increase of 32.8% from the May 15th total of 2,710,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 703,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.1 days. Approximately 5.6% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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Universal Health Services is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, July 25th 2022.
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Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE:UHS) posted its earnings results on Monday, April, 25th. The health services provider reported $2.15 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $2.47 by $0.32. The health services provider had revenue of $3.29 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.24 billion. Universal Health Services had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 15.06% and a net margin of 7.25%. The business's revenue was up 9.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $2.44 EPS.
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Universal Health Services announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 18th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, June 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.20 per share on Wednesday, June 15th. This represents a $0.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.75%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, May 31st.
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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 0.79%. The dividend payout ratio of Universal Health Services is 7.01%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Universal Health Services will have a dividend payout ratio of 5.96% next year. This indicates that Universal Health Services will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Universal Health Services announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback plan on Thursday, February 24th 2022, which permits the company to repurchase $1,400,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 12.1% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Universal Health Services issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, June, 30th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $9.60-$10.40 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $11.69. The company issued revenue guidance of $13.23 billion-$13.37 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $13.49 billion.

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

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Universal Health Services trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "UHS."

Universal Health Services' stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Insight Wealth Strategies LLC (0.02%). Company insiders that own Universal Health Services stock include Eileen C Mcdonnell, Eileen C Mcdonnell, Elliot J Md Mba Sussman, Lawrence S Gibbs, Marc D Miller, Marc W Booth, Marvin G Pember, Matthew Jay Peterson, Robert H Hotz and Steve Filton.
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UHS stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Insight Wealth Strategies LLC.
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One share of UHS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $105.97.

Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) has a market capitalization of $7.93 billion and generates $12.64 billion in revenue each year. The health services provider earns $991.59 million in net income (profit) each year or $11.409990 on an earnings per share basis.

Universal Health Services employs 89,400 workers across the globe.

Universal Health Services' mailing address is 367 S GULPH RD, KING OF PRUSSIA PA, 19406. The official website for Universal Health Services is www.uhsinc.com. The health services provider can be reached via phone at (610) 768-3300, via email at [email protected], or via fax at 610-768-3336.