Is the price fair?
What UHS's price assumes
Universal Health Services trades at 7.29× earnings against 19.7× for the median Medical Care Facilities name, cheaper than its own group.
7.29
Trailing P/E · Medical Care Facilities median 19.7 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 0.62
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 9.9%
Free cash flow yield · Medical Care Facilities median 7.8%
- Growth the price implies
- −3.5%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −3.5% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +18% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 1.48
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 7.64
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 0.88
- Healthcare median P/E362 names
- 31.5
- Medical Care Facilities median P/E29 names
- 19.7
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $845M
- Market capitalisation
- $8.55B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +9.5%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +18%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $275.07 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $333.37 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $358.10 |
| 52-week range | $141.17 – $243.41 |
| Today | $178.80 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Medical Care Facilities
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