A new trading day began on Tuesday, with Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) stock price up 0.67% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $204.55. UHS’s price has ranged from $121.55 to $243.25 over the past 52 weeks.
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Healthcare Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 5.83% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 51.39%. With a float of $56.39 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $59.93 million.
The firm has a total of 96700 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 25.9%, operating margin of 9.99%, and the pretax margin is 8.7%.
Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) Insider Activity
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Medical Care Facilities Industry. The insider ownership of Universal Health Services, Inc. is 15.47%, while institutional ownership is 83.03%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Aug 13 ’24, was worth 375,534. In this transaction Director of this company sold 1,722 shares at a rate of $218.08, taking the stock ownership to the 5,048 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Aug 12 ’24, when Company’s Director sold 3,444 for $217.64, making the entire transaction worth $749,552. This insider now owns 3,971 shares in total.
Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 51.39% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 24.66% during the next five years compared to 4.26% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Universal Health Services, Inc.’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 1.28. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.89. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 14.40.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 15.04, a number that is poised to hit 4.22 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 18.01 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Universal Health Services, Inc., UHS], we can find that recorded value of 1.05 million was better than the volume posted last year of 0.67 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 6.61%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 7.52.
During the past 100 days, Universal Health Services, Inc.’s (UHS) raw stochastic average was set at 43.36%, which indicates a significant increase from 10.55% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 54.63% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 33.50% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $228.45, while its 200-day Moving Average is $191.27. Now, the first resistance to watch is $208.96. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $211.99. The third major resistance level sits at $214.67. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $203.24, it is likely to go to the next support level at $200.56. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $197.53.
Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 13.74 billion, the company has a total of 66,713K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 14,282 M while annual income is 717,800 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 3,963 M while its latest quarter income was 258,710 K.
