Universal Health Services, Inc (NYSE:UHS) shares, rose in value on Friday, January 24, with the stock price down by -2.17% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $185.77.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $189.90, falling within a range of $182.245 and $191.01. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.297 whereas the PE ratio was 12.36 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $243.25, and the low was $150.11. On the whole, UHS has fluctuated by 3.14% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Universal Health Services, Inc currently standing at about $10.91 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in February. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.80, with its dividend yield at 0.43%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that UHS’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0.53, with the price of UHS currently trading nearly 1.15% and -2.36% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 48.85, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.51% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.39%. Furthermore, Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS)’s beta value is 1.30, and its average true range (ATR) is 4.82.
A comparison of Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. UHS showed an intraday change of -2.17% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 20.78%%.
Data on historical trading for Universal Health Services, Inc (NYSE:UHS) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.48 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 674.62K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 58.71 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 15.89% of Universal Health Services, Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 81.68% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 1.82 million shares as on 2024-12-31, resulting in a short ratio of 3.13. According to the data, the short interest in Universal Health Services, Inc (UHS) stood at 431.00 of shares outstanding as of 2024-12-31; the number of short shares registered in 2024-11-29 reached 1.53 million. The stock has risen by 3.54% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the UHS stock heading into the next quarter.
