UHSUniversal Health Services
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -56% · now 27% below its 52-week high.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can UHS take a bad year?
Universal Health Services carries $4.71B of net debt at 1.75× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.75×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.85× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.93
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 13.1×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $4.85B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $139M
- Net debt
- $4.71B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.70B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.06B
- Debt / equity
- 0.65×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.80×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 34%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −56%
- Below its 52-week high
- 27%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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