Forensic Analysis · Healthcare / Pharmaceuticals / Biotech · as of Aug 10, 2026

Universal Health Services Inc (UHS)

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

B · Sound & dependable

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

4.0

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

6.8

P / E (ttm)

20.5%

ROE

$10.5B

Market cap

0.47%

Dividend yield

9.7%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Universal Health Services Inc earns a B (Sound & dependable) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 4.0, placing it in the Safe zone. 2 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

11.8%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 11.8% in the latest fiscal year and rising from 7% — a modest positive spread over its ~10% cost of capital — growth adds value, though not dramatically.

120% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $1.0B to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 120% of free cash flow, but 55% of operating cash flow. Returns run ahead of free cash flow, with the gap funded by debt or cash reserves rather than the cash the business itself throws off; the payout itself is still covered by operating cash. Counting the $96M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 131%.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$17.36B

Revenue Growth YoY+9.7%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+9.0%

Net Margin8.6%

Free Cash Flow$849.2M

Return on Equity20.5%

Debt / Equity0.65x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 10, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.