UHS Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Universal Health Services | NYSE:UHS)

Universal Health Services Inc offers healthcare services through its behavioral health centers, acute care hospitals, and related outpatient facilities. As of late 2025, the company operated 346 inpatient behavioral health centers, 29 acute care hospitals, and many supportive outpatient facilities. Its operations are concentrated in the U.S, particularly in Nevada (21% of 2025 operating profits), Texas (19%), and California (13%), although it does have some exposure to the UK behavioral health market (6% of 2025 sales) too. While its acute care services account for over 55% of revenue, the behavioral health centers sport higher margins and account for over 55% of pretax profits.

Universal Health Services trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol UHS.

As of June 12, 2026, UHS stock price climbed to $146.42 with 644,326 million shares trading.

UHS has a beta of 0.21, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. UHS has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.

UHS has a market cap of $8.86 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Universal Health Services reported $4 billion in Revenue and $5.62 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $113 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.19.

In the last 3 years, UHS traded as high as $246.33 and as low as $119.90.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that UHS belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VB, RSP, VBR.

UHS has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -15.2%, while the SPY ETF gained +24.1%. In the last 3 month period, UHS fell short of the market, returning -23.0%, while SPY returned +11.6%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks UHS has outperformed the stock market by returning +0.3%, while SPY returned -1.9%.

UHS support price is $142.80 and resistance is $149.30 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that UHS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.