How is Universal Health Services (UHS) doing?

Universal Health Services is a company in the medical, care facilities industry, based in King of Prussia, PA, worth $10.7B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Weak

Universal Health Services shares are down 14% over the past year, 25 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Falling Knife. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 19th percentile on market beat, the 18th on staying power and the 43rd on business growth. It appears on 6 of our dashboards.

$177.35−14% in a yearWorth $10.7B

Compare with HCA · THC · ACHC · EHC

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

UHS against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Universal Health Services −14%, the S&P 500 +16%.

UHSS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Falling Knife

LaggingErraticSlowingBought

Lagging erratically on a soft business, with buyers trying to catch it.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Falling Knife this month; Turning Up before that.

Also Falling Knife (55 in all): MDT · BMRN · ABT · DHR · QGEN · CDNS

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Health care, 86 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Tools, biotech and large-cap pharma — defensive growth.

UHS, past year−14%70 of 86 in the group

Rest of the group+21%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Universal Health Services is −14% over the past year, against +21% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 70th of 86 in Health care.

UHSRest of the group

Best in the groupRVMD Revolution Medicines+297%ILMN Illumina+184%NTRA Natera+133%

Worst in the groupPODD Insulet−57%BSX Boston Scientific−56%RARE Ultragenyx−50%

Its closest rivalsHCA HCA Healthcare+6%THC Tenet Healthcare+32%ACHC Acadia Healthcare+14%EHC Encompass Health−1%

Health care on Stox ›

How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Universal Health Services typically moves 2.6% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 50% of large US stocks.

Typical day2.6%about $4.69 a share

Its usual3.1%about usual, 0.8× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5002.8×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±5.3%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−42%now 27% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks36%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.6

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 3.12%

UHS on our dashboards

Every question where Universal Health Services appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with UHS highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Which stocks are cheap against their own history? Value	96Cheap	51 of 60	P/E now 7.3x · 10-yr median 14.2x · Earnings, 1Y +27%
Which stocks fell even though the business grew? Value	–	25 of 38	Price, 1Y −14% · Sales, 1Y +10% · EPS, 1Y +27%
Which stocks are cheaper than their rivals? Value	92Cheaper	36 of 60	P/E 7.3x · Rivals’ P/E 15.1x · Growth gap +4 pts
Who is buying back their own stock? Dividends and buybacks	90Shrinking	53 of 60	Shares, 1Y −5.0% · Bought back $1.1B · % of value 9.7%
Which companies return the most cash to shareholders? Dividends and buybacks	95Generous	28 of 60	Total 10.2% · Dividends 0.4% · Buybacks 9.7%
Where is money flowing in? Who’s buying and selling	88Inflow	60 of 60	30 days 74 · 5 days 70 · Net buying +10%

Go deeper on Stox

UHS’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see UHS’s full profile on Stox.

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