CONCENTRA GROUP HOLDINGS PARENT, INC. vs UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC., two Medical Care stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Universal Health earns 20.2% on equity with 0.72 turns of debt; Concentra earns 41.2% with 3.62 turns, and deflating both to assets flips the ranking, 9.7% against 6.2%. That is the pair in miniature: UHS earns more, more honestly, and trades at 6.1 times earnings against Concentra's 21.7, a 3.5x price gap per dollar of profit running directly against the quality reading. UHS also returns nearly double the free cash, 10.2% against 5.5%. What Concentra's premium buys is the story, steady employer-paid clinic visits against the perceived fragility of behavioral-and-acute hospital margins. The market is paying triple for revenue it finds calmer; the returns table keeps voting the other way.
Comparison updated 2026-07-10.
| Metric | CON | UHS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $30.16 | $145.68 |
| Market cap | $3.9B | $9.0B |
| Sector | Medical Care | Medical Care |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | -4.1% | — |
| P/E | 21.7 | 6.1 |
| P/B | 8.97 | 1.19 |
| P/S | 1.74 | 0.51 |
| EV/EBITDA | 12.6 | 5.4 |
| Revenue growth | +15.5% | +10.4% |
| Operating margin | 16.8% | 11.2% |
| Net margin | 8.0% | 8.6% |
| Return on equity | 41.2% | 20.2% |
| Return on assets | 6.2% | 9.7% |
| Return on invested capital | 13.2% | 12.0% |
| FCF yield | 5.5% | 10.2% |
| Dividend yield | 0.8% | 0.6% |
| Debt / equity | 3.62 | 0.72 |
| Current ratio | 1.26 | 1.08 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 1.96 | 7.26 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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