Universal Health Services, Inc. is a holding company. It operates through its subsidiaries, including its management company. It is engaged in owning and operating acute care hospitals and outpatient facilities, and behavioral healthcare facilities. Its segments include acute care hospital services, behavioral health care services, and Other. It owns and operates approximately 360 inpatient facilities and 48 outpatient and other facilities located in 39 states, Washington, D.C., the United Kingdom, and Puerto Rico. We show 60 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our UHS shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute UHS market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing UHS market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing UHS's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of UHS versus a peer is one thing; comparing
UHS market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like UHS can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching UHS by allowing them to research the UHS market cap history. |
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