During the last session, Universal Health Services, Inc (NYSE:UHS)’s traded shares were 0.83 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.31. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $181.78, reflecting an intraday loss of -1.08% or -$1.99. The 52-week high for the UHS share is $243.25, that puts it down -33.82 from that peak though still a striking 15.29% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $153.99. The company’s market capitalization is $11.85B, and the average trade volume was 951.76K shares over the past three months.
Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.27. UHS has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 13 analysts who have looked at this stock. 8 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 5 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Universal Health Services, Inc (NYSE:UHS) trade information
Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS) registered a -1.08% downside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -1.08% in intraday trading to $181.78, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 1.70%, and it has moved by -0.70% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 7.24%.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $200, which implies an increase of 9.11% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $200 and $200 respectively. As a result, UHS is trading at a discount of -10.02% off the target high and -10.02% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 13.00%. While earnings are projected to return 17.73% in 2025, the next five years will return 12.86% per annum.
UHS Dividends
Universal Health Services, Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Universal Health Services, Inc is 0.80, with the dividend yield indicating at 0.44 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.
The next largest institutional holding, with 4.63 million shares, is of FIRST EAGLE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC’s that is approximately 6.9186% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $855.68 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS) shares are First Eagle Funds-First Eagle Global Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Jan 31, 2025 indicates that First Eagle Funds-First Eagle Global Fund owns about 3.37 shares. This amounts to just over 5.81 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $612.27 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 1.75, or about 3.02% of the stock, which is worth about $318.16 million.
