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UHS vs. ACHC, CYH, ELV, HCA, HUM, ITGR, ALC, THC, EHC, and ENSG

Should you be buying Universal Health Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Universal Health Services include Acadia Healthcare (ACHC), Community Health Systems (CYH), Elevance Health (ELV), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Humana (HUM), Integer (ITGR), Alcon (ALC), Tenet Healthcare (THC), Encompass Health (EHC), and The Ensign Group (ENSG). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.

Universal Health Services vs. Its Competitors

Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) and Acadia Healthcare (NASDAQ:ACHC) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

Universal Health Services presently has a consensus price target of $221.85, indicating a potential upside of 31.28%. Acadia Healthcare has a consensus price target of $47.94, indicating a potential upside of 118.72%. Given Acadia Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Acadia Healthcare is more favorable than Universal Health Services.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Universal Health Services
1 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
Acadia Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60

86.1% of Universal Health Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.4% of Universal Health Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Acadia Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Universal Health Services had 8 more articles in the media than Acadia Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Universal Health Services and 10 mentions for Acadia Healthcare. Acadia Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Universal Health Services' score of 0.85 indicating that Acadia Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Universal Health Services
8 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Acadia Healthcare
6 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Universal Health Services has higher revenue and earnings than Acadia Healthcare. Universal Health Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acadia Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Universal Health Services$15.83B0.69$1.14B$17.829.48
Acadia Healthcare$3.15B0.64$255.61M$2.0310.80

Universal Health Services has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acadia Healthcare has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Universal Health Services has a net margin of 7.44% compared to Acadia Healthcare's net margin of 5.94%. Universal Health Services' return on equity of 17.79% beat Acadia Healthcare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Universal Health Services7.44% 17.79% 8.27%
Acadia Healthcare 5.94%8.72%4.46%

Summary

Universal Health Services beats Acadia Healthcare on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding UHS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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UHS vs. The Competition

MetricUniversal Health ServicesMED IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$11.10B$20.14B$5.54B$20.85B
Dividend Yield0.47%0.48%3.75%3.65%
P/E Ratio9.4825.7621.0126.34
Price / Sales0.691.33433.8159.22
Price / Cash6.419.5936.1622.29
Price / Book1.6134.878.124.66
Net Income$1.14B$1.65B$3.25B$994.58M
7 Day Performance-7.44%-3.49%0.97%-0.29%
1 Month Performance-1.24%2.29%7.36%4.91%
1 Year Performance-6.82%-9.25%31.31%10.53%

Universal Health Services Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
UHS
Universal Health Services
4.9903 of 5 stars
$168.99
-1.1%
$221.85
+31.3%
-7.0%$11.10B$15.83B9.4899,000Dividend Announcement
Analyst Downgrade
ACHC
Acadia Healthcare
4.4081 of 5 stars
$23.32
-0.2%
$47.94
+105.6%
-66.1%$2.15B$3.15B11.4925,500News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Revision
CYH
Community Health Systems
2.9933 of 5 stars
$3.34
-2.1%
$4.17
+24.8%
-7.1%$468.64M$12.63B-0.9160,000Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
ELV
Elevance Health
4.9753 of 5 stars
$346.76
-0.3%
$498.87
+43.9%
-42.1%$78.34B$177.01B13.53104,200Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Gap Down
HCA
HCA Healthcare
4.9649 of 5 stars
$378.51
+0.5%
$395.71
+4.5%
+12.3%$91.06B$70.60B16.83316,000Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
HUM
Humana
4.8788 of 5 stars
$237.00
-1.1%
$280.76
+18.5%
-44.3%$28.60B$117.76B16.7665,680Trending News
Analyst Forecast
ITGR
Integer
3.8897 of 5 stars
$117.05
-3.3%
$145.00
+23.9%
-7.7%$4.08B$1.72B55.4711,000News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
ALC
Alcon
2.8397 of 5 stars
$86.81
-1.1%
$106.13
+22.2%
-3.4%$42.82B$9.91B38.5825,599Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
THC
Tenet Healthcare
4.7097 of 5 stars
$172.98
+0.9%
$183.94
+6.3%
+31.3%$16.07B$20.52B11.4498,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
EHC
Encompass Health
4.9297 of 5 stars
$119.22
+0.2%
$127.00
+6.5%
+27.0%$12.02B$5.37B24.6340,000News Coverage
ENSG
The Ensign Group
4.9334 of 5 stars
$147.57
-1.7%
$163.50
+10.8%
+0.2%$8.48B$4.26B27.9039,300Upcoming Earnings

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This page (NYSE:UHS) was last updated on 7/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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