On Tuesday, Universal Health Services, Inc (NYSE: UHS) was 3.45% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $199.21. A 52-week range for UHS has been $133.70 – $243.25.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Healthcare sector was 5.83%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 51.13%. With a float of $55.53 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $59.93 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 96700 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 30.67%, operating margin of 9.99%, and the pretax margin is 8.7%.
Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS) Insider Activity
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Universal Health Services, Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Universal Health Services, Inc is 15.83%, while institutional ownership is 81.89%. 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
Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 9/30/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted 3.13 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was better than consensus figure (set at 2.91) by 0.22. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 4.24 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 51.13% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 24.55% 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
You can see what Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 1.28. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.78. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 12.65.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 15.03, a number that is poised to hit 4.17 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 18.08 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 0.69 million, its volume of 0.98 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 64.48%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 6.25.
During the past 100 days, Universal Health Services, Inc’s (UHS) raw stochastic average was set at 43.59%, which indicates a significant decrease from 76.87% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 21.98% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 34.08% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $216.78, while its 200-day Moving Average is $195.71. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $209.16 in the near term. At $212.23, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $217.75. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $200.57, it is likely to go to the next support level at $195.05. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $191.98.
Universal Health Services, Inc (NYSE: UHS) Key Stats
There are 65,966K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 12.10 billion. As of now, sales total 14,282 M while income totals 717,800 K. Its latest quarter income was 3,963 M while its last quarter net income were 258,710 K.
