A new trading day began on Tuesday, with Universal Health Services, Inc (NYSE: UHS) stock price up 2.71% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $157.05. UHS’s price has ranged from $153.99 to $243.25 over the past 52 weeks.
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Healthcare Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 6.87% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 15.89%. With a float of $54.32 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $57.73 million.
The firm has a total of 99000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 51.21%, operating margin of 10.63%, and the pretax margin is 9.46%.
Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
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 16.68%, while institutional ownership is 83.63%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 10 ’25, was worth 179,161. In this transaction Director of this company sold 1,000 shares at a rate of $179.16, taking the stock ownership to the 7,916 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 10 ’25, when Company’s Director proposed sale 1,000 for $179.16, making the entire transaction worth $179,161.
Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS) Recent Fiscal highlights
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 15.89% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.42% during the next five years compared to 13.00% 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 1.17. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.66. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 9.36.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 16.83, a number that is poised to hit 4.35 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 21.38 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 0.76 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 0.79 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 25.16%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 7.59.
During the past 100 days, Universal Health Services, Inc’s (UHS) raw stochastic average was set at 13.43%, which indicates a significant decrease from 19.93% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 62.40% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 37.13% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $178.29, while its 200-day Moving Average is $199.29. Now, the first resistance to watch is $163.05. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $164.80. The third major resistance level sits at $167.52. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $158.58, it is likely to go to the next support level at $155.86. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $154.11.
Universal Health Services, Inc (NYSE: UHS) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 10.52 billion, the company has a total of 65,002K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 15,828 M while annual income is 1,142 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 4,114 M while its latest quarter income was 332,400 K.
