Forensic Analysis · Healthcare Providers & Services · as of Nov 11, 2026

Community Health Systems Inc (CYH)

A forensic read on Community Health Systems Inc built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

C · Mixed — selective

Forensic grade

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

-1.2%

Revenue growth

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Community Health Systems Inc earns a C (Mixed — selective) forensic quality grade. 1 forensic signal was flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

11.9%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 11.9% in the latest fiscal year and rising across FY2023–FY2025 from 5.1%. After-tax operating profit was $622M in FY2023 and $1.3B in FY2025, with operating income at 7.7% of revenue in FY2023, 4.3% in FY2024 and 11.9% in FY2025. The capital base behind it went from $12.3B in FY2023 to $11.2B in FY2025 (-9%), while the revenue it carried went from $12.5B to $12.5B. FY2023's operating profit carried a $87M asset write-down that took about 0.5 points off that year's return, and FY2025's carried a $406M asset write-down that took about 3.3 points off the latest; so, net of each other, the two charges take about 2.8 points off the +6.8-point change across FY2023–FY2025. FY2024's operating profit carried a $301M asset write-down that alone took about 2.0 points off that year's return; FY2024 sits between the two ends of FY2023–FY2025, so the charge shapes the path between them without moving the change across it. A non-cash write-down lowers the reported return in the year it lands.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$12.48B

Revenue Growth YoY-1.2%

Revenue CAGR (2yr)-0.0%

Net Margin4.1%

Free Cash Flow$208.0M

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