Currently, there are 59.93M common shares owned by the public and among those 56.52M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 2.07% and 25.38% over the past three months. UHS shares are trading 56.11% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 76.27% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $119.90 and touched a high of $237.86 over the same period. UHS has an average intraday trading volume of 722.39K shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 6.28%, 16.80%, and 36.87% respectively.
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Institutional ownership of Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) shares accounts for 83.42% of the company’s 59.93M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $15.87B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.28. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 17.46, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $13.63. The company has a PEG of 0.71 and a Quick Ratio of 1.17 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.77. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.28% over the week and 1.83% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) will achieve an EPS of 3.72 for the current quarter, 4.23 for the next quarter and 17.75 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 3.38 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 3.38. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 2.55 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 47.96%, and 12.09% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 24.54% over the next five years, compared to 4.26% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the UHS, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Cantor Fitzgerald stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on July 26, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $162-$219. Barclays coverage for the Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) stock in a research note released on July 26, 2024 offered a Overweight rating with a price target of $256. Robert W. Baird was of a view on June 26, 2024 that the stock is Outperform, while Robert W. Baird gave the stock Neutral rating on May 30, 2024, issuing a price target of $198. UBS on their part issued Buy rating on May 20, 2024.
