Universal Health Services (UHS)
Health Care · Hospital operators and health care services
Large diversified hospital operator running 375 acute care and behavioral health inpatient facilities across the US, UK, and Puerto Rico, with 42% of revenues from behavioral health services.
What Universal Health Services does
Universal Health Services owns and operates a diversified portfolio of 375 inpatient and 168 outpatient facilities across 40 US states, Washington D.C., the United Kingdom, and Puerto Rico. The company's acute care hospitals provide general and specialty surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics, emergency care, oncology, and diagnostic services; behavioral health facilities represent 42% of consolidated net revenues. Core operations include central purchasing, information technology services, finance and control systems, physician recruitment, and administrative management across all facilities.
Themes: ["hospital networks","behavioral health","Medicaid reimbursement","healthcare operations","acute care delivery","US and UK healthcare markets","emergency medicine"]
Fundamentals
- Price$156.43 as of 2026-07-08 close
- Market cap$9.3B as of 2026-07-09
- 1-year return-14.2% as of 2026-07-08 close
- P/E6.09 as of 2026-07-09
- Net margin+8.6% as of 2026-07-09
- ROE+21.0% as of 2026-07-09
- Debt / equity0.63 as of 2026-07-09
- Revenue growth (YoY)+10.4% as of 2026-07-09
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+9.0% SEC XBRL
- Beta1.07 as of 2026-07-09
Dividend: yield +0.5%; 5-year non-decreasing per-share dividend streak (SEC XBRL).
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Medicaid revenue exposure: company receives $100+ million annually from Medicaid in 14 states with year-to-year approval requirements; new legislation (One Big Beautiful Bill Act, July 2025) imposes work/service requirements and limits provider fee mechanisms","Regulatory and compliance risk: operations subject to licensing, accreditation, Medicare/Medicaid certification, utilization review, certificate-of-need laws, and fraud/abuse provisions; loss of accreditation or certification could eliminate reimbursement","State-level policy volatility: conversion legislation, regulatory changes, utilization review denials by Quality Improvement Organizations, and state-specific Medicaid program modifications could materially reduce revenues or increase operational costs"]
Competitors & peers
Fundamentals: Finnhub, as of 2026-07-09. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-07-08.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & Finnhub, shown with their as-of date.