UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC.
UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC. (UHS) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
• Universal Health Services runs two hospital businesses, acute care and behavioral health, with acute care, outpatient, and commercial insurer revenue making up roughly 57% of consolidated net revenues, per the filing, and behavioral health the rest. • The striking fact is the valuation gap: the stock trades at a fraction of where the standard methods land even as Q1 2026 revenue grew 9.6% and EPS rose 16.1% to $5.62 [Source: UHS Q1 2026 results, 2026], a growth profile the price does not refle
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633 institutional managers reported holding UHS in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 83% of the company; the top 10 hold 45%. 58 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, First Eagle Investment Management, BlackRock, among others. On the short side, 2.6M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (2.4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
UHS has cut its share count 27.5% over the past five years, spending $4.04B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting); the current rate is $0.80 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $144.80M in dividends and $2.14B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at UHS over the trailing three years: 2023: 1 buy totaling $34k. 10 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
UHS's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-09 | +3.6% | +6.7% |
| 2023-08-09 | -7.8% | -3.5% |
| 2023-11-09 | +0.9% | +23.5% |
| 2024-02-28 | -1.6% | +5.2% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
UHS's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-22 (items 5.07); 2026-05-21 (items 5.02); 2026-04-28 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-24 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-03-30 (items 5.02).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 28, 2026
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