Earnings To Watch: Universal Health Services (UHS) Reports Q4 Results Tomorrow

Earnings To Watch: Universal Health Services (UHS) Reports Q4 Results Tomorrow

Anthony Lee

Tue, February 24, 2026 at 12:17 PM GMT+9 2 min read

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Hospital management company Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) will be reporting results this Wednesday afternoon. Here’s what to look for.

Universal Health Services beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $4.50 billion, up 13.4% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ full-year EPS guidance estimates and a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.

Is Universal Health Services a buy or sell going into earnings? Read our full analysis here, it’s free for active Edge members.

This quarter, the market is expecting Universal Health Services’s revenue to grow 9.7% year on year, slowing from the 11.1% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

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Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Universal Health Services rarely misses Wall Street’s revenue estimates.

Looking at Universal Health Services’s peers in the healthcare providers & services segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Tenet Healthcare delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.1%, and HCA Healthcare reported revenues up 6.7%, falling short of estimates by 1%. Tenet Healthcare traded up 20.3% following the results while HCA Healthcare was also up 4%.

Read our full analysis of Tenet Healthcare’s results here and HCA Healthcare’s results here.

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