Is Universal Health Services stock a buy?
What Is The Conclusion?
Right now our advanced algorithms say:
Do the analyst corps agree?
Interesting Questions and Easy Answers!
Yes, Universal Health Services pays dividends. Last time was Tuesday 17th of September 2024 where the investors holding the stock on Tuesday 3rd of September 2024 were paid $0.2 per share. Over the last 24 times between 2018 and 2024, Universal Health Services has paid $4.2 with an average of $0.18 per share.
Sorry, we do not have any analyst data for this ticker
We cannot find data for Universal Health Services 10 years ago, but if you had invested on Wednesday 27th of November 2019 when the price was $140.59, you would have made a profit of $53.90 per share or 38.34%
No, the average daily trading liquidity for Universal Health Services is $793 thousand. Trading in stocks with this little trading liquidity is very dangerous, and you can get into a situation where it will be hard to trade your stocks. In addition, these types of stocks usually have very high volatility.
Universal Health Services has a normal ratio of the business financed by loans. This puts the company at some risk in periods of high inflation where borrowing costs usually go up. With a normal cash flow to debt ratio of 0.39, the company's ability to pay off the debt is normal. Universal Health Services has a good net profit margin of 6.66% and should have high tolerances against inflation.
We have calculated the inflation risk for Universal Health Services to be low [0.4 of 1]
US inflation for August 2024 was 0.19%. Over the last 12 months, the US inflation is 2.59%. The 10-year treasury yield that indicates the future interest level is currently 4.41 and is up 0.05 over the last 30 days.