Universal Health Services, Inc (NYSE: UHS) is 3.96% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $152.68 and a high of $243.25 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The UHS stock was last observed hovering at around $184.46 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 2.07%.
Currently trading at $186.53, the stock is 6.11% and 2.49% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.01 million and changing 1.12% at the moment leaves the stock -6.82% off its SMA200. UHS registered 4.88% gain for a year compared to 6-month loss of -22.77%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $181.9986 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $200.1772.
The stock witnessed a 3.56% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 3.21%, and is 4.38% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.42% over the week and 3.56% over the month.
Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS) has around 99000 employees, a market worth around $12.12B and $15.83B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 11.08 and Fwd P/E is 8.75. Profit margin for the company is 7.22%. Distance from 52-week low is 22.17% and -23.32% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (9.92%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 15.68% this year
873.0 institutions hold shares in Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS), with institutional investors hold 101.21% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 57.73M, and float is at 54.14M with Short Float at 5.16%. Institutions hold 96.34% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 7.11 million shares valued at $1.32 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 10.5835 of the UHS Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is FIRST EAGLE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC with 4.63 million shares valued at $855.68 million to account for 6.9186 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 4.45 million shares representing 6.6482 and valued at over $822.24 million, while FMR LLC holds 4.43 of the shares totaling 2.96 million with a market value of $547.89 million.
Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Singer Maria Ruderman, the company’s Director. SEC filings show that Singer Maria Ruderman sold 1,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Mar 10 ’25 at a price of $179.16 per share for a total of $0.18 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 7916.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Dec 11 ’24, Singer Maria Ruderman (Director) disposed off 1,614 shares at an average price of $191.15 for $0.31 million. The insider now directly holds 5,879 shares of Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS).
