UHSUniversal Health Services
Our principal business is owning and operating, through our subsidiaries, acute care hospitals and outpatient facilities and behavioral health care facilities. 10-K, Item 1
- Employees
- 101,500
- Headquarters
- King Of Prussia, PA
- CEO
- Marc D. Miller
- Next results
- around Feb 25, 2027
All key numbers (41) From EDGAR
| EPS (ttm) | 23.89 | Sales (ttm) | 18.4B | Net income (ttm) | 1.5B | Sales growth | +9.7% | EPS growth | +37.3% | Sales Q/Q | +5.3% |
| Free cash flow | 1.1B | Gross margin | - | Oper. margin | 10.8% | Net margin | 8.0% | FCF margin | 6.1% | ROE | 19.2% |
| ROA | 8.5% | R&D / sales | - | Dividend | 0.80 | Debt/Eq | 0.75 | Curr. ratio | 1.37 | Cash | 168.7M |
| Op. cash flow (ttm) | 2.1B | EBITDA | 2.6B | EBITDA margin | 15.0% | Net debt | 5.5B | Quick ratio | 1.37 | Interest cover | 12.78 |
| ROIC | 11.5% | Payout ratio | 3.5% | Tax rate | 23.4% | Stock pay / sales | 0.6% | Shares out. | 59.1M | Shares Y/Y | -5.1% |
| Book / share | 128.44 | Cash / share | 2.85 | Sales / share | 310.30 | Asset turnover | 1.07 | Days sales out. | 55 | Sales 3Y CAGR | +9.0% |
| Sales 5Y CAGR | +8.5% | EPS 3Y CAGR | +36.2% | EPS 5Y CAGR | +16.0% | Employees | 101,500 | Sales / employee | 181K |
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UHS against Health care peers
Ten years, side by side → · All 60 →Each side 0 to 100, ranked against every company we cover: relative position on reported figures, not a buy score. How
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| Company | Revenue (ttm) | Sales growth | Gross margin | Net margin | ROE | FCF margin | Debt / equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UHS Universal Health Services | $18.4B | +9.7% | - | 8.0% | 19.2% | 6.1% | 0.75 |
| GEHC GE HealthCare | $21.6B | +4.8% | 39.9% | 10.0% | 18.5% | 8.7% | 0.86 |
| BSX Boston Scientific | $21.1B | +19.9% | 69.1% | 16.6% | 13.7% | 15.8% | 0.47 |
| IQV IQVIA | $17.3B | +5.9% | - | 8.1% | 20.9% | 12.0% | 2.41 |
| REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | $16.9B | +1.0% | - | 28.5% | 14.4% | 22.6% | 0.06 |
| VTRS Viatris | $14.7B | -3.0% | 35.3% | -4.1% | -4.4% | 14.3% | 0.97 |
Profitability
2 of 3- !Net margin below the peer median8.0% vs 9.6%
- ✓Return on equity above 15%19.2%
- ✓A profit in every one of 10 years
Balance sheet
3 of 4- ✓Interest covered more than 5 timesOperating income is 12.8× interest expense
- ✓Debt smaller than equityDebt / equity 0.75 on the latest balance sheet (peer median 0.66)
- ✓Current assets cover current liabilitiesCurrent ratio 1.37
- !Net debt over 3 years of free cash flow$5.5B net debt, 5.0 years
Cash and shareholders
3 of 4- ✓Free cash flow positive in every one of 10 years$849.2M last year
- ✓Share count down over 5 years−24.7%
- !Dividend per share not up over 4 years$0.80 → $0.80
- ✓Cash from operations above net income$1.9B vs $1.5B
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What the debt is made of, and when it is due
balance sheet of Sep 30, 2026Left: the debt lines on the balance sheet (XBRL). Right: the principal due each year, from the debt note's maturity schedule; it can differ a little from the balance sheet, which shows the debt net of discounts and fees. Leases are not counted. This company's debt note has no tagged lines yet, so fixed or floating rate is not shown. The full schedule →
Revenue and net income, FY2016 to FY2025
Revenue 17.4B Net income 1.5BFrom XBRL in each 10-K. Hover a bar for the line item and filing. Full financials →
Where the $17.4B of revenue came from
by product, year to Dec 31, 2025- Managed Care (HMO and PPOs) $4.9B · 28%
- Medicaid $2.7B · 15%
- Managed Medicaid $2.5B · 14%
- Managed Medicare $2.1B · 12%
- Medicare $1.9B · 11%
- Other $3.4B · 19%
From the segment tables in the 10-K XBRL. Revenue by segment, product and region →
UHS's income statement, balance sheet and cash flow as reported to the SEC in XBRL, one column per fiscal year. Hover a number to see the line item and filing it comes from. Where a company changed how it tags a line, the first tag it reported for that period is used. A number looks wrong? Tell us.
Revenue by business segment
year to Dec 31, 2025| Revenue | Share | vs year before | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acute Care Hospital Services | 9.9B | 57.2% | +11.0% |
| Behavioral Health Services | 7.4B | 42.8% | +8.0% |
| State Medicaid programs | 56.0M | 0.3% | +5.7% |
| Other | 13.4M | 0.1% | +27.1% |
10-K 0001193125-26-071676, segment and revenue notes (XBRL).
Revenue by product or service
year to Dec 31, 2025| Revenue | Share | vs year before | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Managed Care (HMO and PPOs) | 4.9B | 28.2% | +9.0% |
| Medicaid | 2.7B | 15.5% | +19.3% |
| Managed Medicaid | 2.5B | 14.3% | +7.8% |
| Managed Medicare | 2.1B | 12.0% | +10.4% |
| Medicare | 1.9B | 10.7% | +11.2% |
| Other Patient Revenue and Adjustments, Net | 1.2B | 7.1% | +11.5% |
| Other Non-patient Revenue | 1.1B | 6.4% | -9.3% |
| UK Revenue | 1.0B | 5.8% | +13.8% |
10-K 0001193125-26-071676, segment and revenue notes (XBRL).
Income statement
From EDGAR| FY2016 | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 9.8B | 10.4B | 10.8B | 11.4B | 11.6B | 12.6B | 13.4B | 14.3B | 15.8B | 17.4B |
| Operating income | 1.3B | 1.3B | 1.2B | 1.2B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.0B | 1.2B | 1.7B | 2.0B |
| Interest expense | 125.1M | 145.2M | 155.0M | 162.7M | 106.3M | 83.7M | 126.9M | 206.7M | 186.1M | 156.1M |
| Pretax income | 1.2B | 1.1B | 1.0B | 1.1B | 1.3B | 1.3B | 866.3M | 940.4M | 1.5B | 2.0B |
| Income tax | 409.2M | 363.7M | 236.6M | 238.8M | 299.3M | 305.7M | 209.3M | 221.1M | 334.8M | 461.0M |
| Net income | 702.4M | 752.3M | 779.7M | 814.9M | 944.0M | 991.6M | 675.6M | 717.8M | 1.1B | 1.5B |
| EPS (diluted) | 7.14 | 7.81 | 8.31 | 9.13 | 10.99 | 11.82 | 9.14 | 10.23 | 16.82 | 23.10 |
| Diluted shares | 98.4M | 96.3M | 93.8M | 89.0M | 85.6M | 83.7M | 73.8M | 70.1M | 67.9M | 64.5M |
| Depreciation & amortization | 416.6M | 447.8M | 453.0M | 490.4M | 510.5M | 533.2M | 581.9M | 568.0M | 584.8M | 618.7M |
| EBITDA | 1.7B | 1.7B | 1.6B | 1.7B | 1.9B | 1.9B | 1.6B | 1.7B | 2.3B | 2.6B |
| Operating margin | 13.1% | 12.3% | 10.9% | 10.7% | 11.8% | 10.8% | 7.5% | 8.2% | 10.6% | 11.5% |
| Net margin | 7.2% | 7.2% | 7.2% | 7.2% | 8.2% | 7.8% | 5.0% | 5.0% | 7.2% | 8.6% |
| Revenue growth | - | +6.6% | +3.5% | +5.6% | +1.6% | +9.4% | +6.0% | +6.6% | +10.8% | +9.7% |
| EPS growth | - | +9.4% | +6.4% | +9.9% | +20.4% | +7.6% | -22.7% | +11.9% | +64.4% | +37.3% |
Balance sheet
From EDGAR| FY2016 | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | 33.7M | 74.4M | 105.2M | 61.3M | 1.2B | 115.3M | 102.8M | 119.4M | 126.0M | 137.8M |
| Receivables | 1.4B | 1.5B | 1.5B | 1.6B | 1.7B | 1.7B | 2.0B | 2.2B | 2.2B | 2.6B |
| Current assets | 1.7B | 1.8B | 1.9B | 1.9B | 3.3B | 2.3B | 2.5B | 2.8B | 2.8B | 3.4B |
| Property & equipment | 4.3B | 4.6B | 4.8B | 5.0B | 5.4B | 5.9B | 5.9B | 6.1B | 6.6B | 7.0B |
| Goodwill | 3.8B | 3.8B | 3.8B | 3.9B | 3.9B | 4.0B | 3.9B | 3.9B | 3.9B | 4.0B |
| Total assets | 10.3B | 10.8B | 11.3B | 11.7B | 13.5B | 13.1B | 13.5B | 14.0B | 14.5B | 15.5B |
| Accounts payable | 439.7M | 442.0M | 445.7M | 447.0M | 570.5M | 658.9M | 636.6M | 614.0M | 632.0M | 750.1M |
| Current liabilities | 1.3B | 1.8B | 1.4B | 1.6B | 2.5B | 2.0B | 1.9B | 2.0B | 2.2B | 3.2B |
| Total debt | 4.1B | 4.0B | 4.0B | 4.0B | 3.9B | 4.2B | 4.8B | 4.9B | 4.5B | 4.8B |
| Shareholders' equity | 4.5B | 5.0B | 5.4B | 5.5B | 6.3B | 6.1B | 5.9B | 6.1B | 6.7B | 7.3B |
| Retained earnings | 4.9B | 5.4B | 5.8B | 5.9B | 6.7B | 6.6B | 6.5B | 6.8B | 7.4B | 8.0B |
Cash flow
From EDGAR| FY2016 | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | 1.3B | 1.2B | 1.3B | 1.4B | 2.4B | 883.7M | 996.0M | 1.3B | 2.1B | 1.9B |
| Capital spending | 519.9M | 557.5M | 665.0M | 634.1M | 731.3M | 855.7M | 734.0M | 743.1M | 943.8M | 1.0B |
| Free cash flow | 813.9M | 690.1M | 609.8M | 804.4M | 1.6B | 28.0M | 262.0M | 524.7M | 1.1B | 849.2M |
| Stock-based pay (added back) | 48.1M | 56.7M | 66.6M | 69.4M | 65.8M | 73.7M | 85.4M | 87.7M | 99.3M | 95.7M |
| Dividends paid | 38.9M | 38.2M | 37.3M | 53.0M | 17.3M | 65.9M | 58.4M | 55.5M | 53.3M | 51.3M |
| Buybacks | 353.4M | 364.4M | 397.4M | 770.5M | 206.7M | 1.2B | 832.9M | 547.4M | 670.8M | 968.0M |
| Acquisitions | 613.8M | 22.9M | 110.5M | 8.0M | 52.0M | 105.4M | 20.3M | 3.7M | 19.0M | 47.8M |
| Debt repaid | 459.2M | 143.1M | 830.5M | 57.1M | 962.6M | 3.0B | 89.4M | 85.5M | 2.6B | 43.5M |
| Investing cash flow | -1.2B | -684.7M | -747.2M | -688.4M | -802.6M | -914.5M | -647.3M | -763.3M | -911.1M | -1.1B |
| Financing cash flow | -171.2M | -519.2M | -492.2M | -845.0M | -384.9M | -1.1B | -318.4M | -493.9M | -1.1B | -749.7M |
| Dividend per share | - | - | 0.40 | 0.60 | - | 0.80 | 0.80 | 0.80 | 0.80 | 0.80 |
Stock-based pay and leases
From EDGAR| FY2016 | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stock-based pay (expense) | 48.1M | 56.7M | 66.6M | 69.4M | 65.8M | 73.7M | 85.4M | 87.7M | 99.3M | 95.7M |
| Stock-based pay / revenue | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.6% |
| Operating lease cost | - | - | - | 72.1M | 73.8M | 77.4M | 90.3M | 99.8M | 101.9M | 102.0M |
| Operating lease cash paid | - | - | - | 107.2M | 115.3M | 118.4M | 124.7M | 129.3M | 134.5M | 138.5M |
| Finance lease principal paid | - | - | - | 2.0M | 2.6M | 2.8M | 3.5M | 3.8M | 4.0M | 2.4M |
| Right-of-use assets | - | - | 0 | 326.5M | 336.5M | 367.5M | 454.6M | 434.0M | 418.7M | 374.2M |
| Operating lease liabilities | - | - | 0 | 326.5M | 338.1M | 369.1M | 463.3M | 454.2M | 450.9M | 414.0M |
| Finance lease liabilities | - | - | - | 18.0M | 52.9M | 79.3M | 75.6M | 72.7M | 92.5M | 91.1M |
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