Universal Health Services - UHS Stock Forecast, Price & News

11 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Universal Health Services in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 3 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research 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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11 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Universal Health Services' shares. Their UHS share price forecasts range from $90.00 to $167.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $122.43 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.8%.
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Universal Health Services' stock was trading at $129.66 at the beginning of 2022. Since then, UHS stock has decreased by 1.8% and is now trading at $127.33.
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Universal Health Services saw a drop in short interest during the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,070,000 shares, a drop of 39.5% from the October 15th total of 3,420,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 731,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.8 days. Currently, 3.3% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 23rd 2023.
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Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE:UHS) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 25th. The health services provider reported $2.54 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.40 by $0.14. The health services provider had revenue of $3.34 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.28 billion. Universal Health Services had a net margin of 5.59% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 12.49%. The company's revenue was up 5.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $2.67 EPS.
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Universal Health Services announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 16th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.20 per share on Thursday, December 15th. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.63%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 30th.
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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 0.62%. The dividend payout ratio is 8.23%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, UHS will have a dividend payout ratio of 7.51% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Universal Health Services declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback program on Thursday, February 24th 2022, which allows the company to repurchase $1,400,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 12.1% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

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.

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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 variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (9.99%), BlackRock Inc. (6.38%), State Street Corp (3.96%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (2.45%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.25%) and LSV Asset Management (1.70%). 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 and Matthew Jay Peterson.
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Shares of UHS stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of UHS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $127.33.

Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) has a market capitalization of $9.09 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 $9.72 on an earnings per share basis.

The company 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 the company is www.uhsinc.com. The health services provider can be reached via phone at (610) 768-3300, via email at karen.sterner@uhsinc.com, or via fax at 610-768-3336.