Hospital management company Universal Health Services (NYSE: UHS) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday after market close. Here’s what to expect.
Universal Health Services beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $4.64 billion, up 8.3% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with full-year revenue guidance slightly topping analysts’ expectations but a miss of analysts’ full-year EPS guidance estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Universal Health Services’s revenue to grow 4.9% year on year, slowing from the 13.4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business will stay the course heading into earnings. Universal Health Services has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Universal Health Services’s peers in the healthcare providers & services segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Elevance Health posted flat year-on-year revenue, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.1%, and UnitedHealth reported flat revenue, topping estimates by 1.2%. Elevance Health traded up 1.4% following the results while UnitedHealth was also up 4.5%.
Read our full analysis of Elevance Health’s results here and UnitedHealth’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the healthcare providers & services segment, with share prices up 2.7% on average over the last month. Universal Health Services is up 6.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $196.12 (compared to the current share price of $189.32).
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