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Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) Dividend

$186.89 NYSE: UHS Market Cap $11.01B

Metric	Value
Dividend Yield	0.46%
Indicated Annual Dividend	$0.86
Payout Ratio	3.28%
FCF Yield	7.77%
Current Price	$186.89

Dividend Analysis

Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) currently pays a dividend yielding 0.46%, an indicated annual rate of roughly $0.86 per share. The payout ratio is 3.28%, meaning less than 40% of reported earnings were paid out as dividends. Free cash flow yield is 7.77%. FCF yield compares the cash a company generates with its market value and can be read alongside the earnings-based payout ratio.

Universal Health Services, Inc. pays quarterly; the payout ratio is 3.3% of earnings; free cash flow yield of 7.77% covers the 0.46% dividend yield.

Payment schedule

Measure	Value
Indicated annual dividendYield times the current share price.	$0.86
Dividend yieldAnnual dividend as a percentage of the share price.	0.46%
Payments per yearThis stock pays quarterly.	4
Amount per paymentIndicated annual dividend divided by the number of payments.	$0.21

Dividend income by amount invested

At today's price and the current indicated dividend. Shares are not rounded to whole numbers, and a future dividend is never guaranteed.

Invested	Shares	Income per year	Per payment
$1,000	5.4	$4.60	$1.15
$5,000	26.8	$23.00	$5.75
$10,000	53.5	$46.00	$11.50
$25,000	133.8	$115.00	$28.75
$50,000	267.5	$230.00	$57.50

Yield across the 52-week range

Yield moves opposite the share price. Holding the current dividend constant, this is what the yield would have been at each end of the last year's range.

Share price	Price	Yield
At the 52-week high	$246.33	0.35%
Today	$186.89	0.46%
At the 52-week low	$140.08	0.61%

Dividend yield against peers

Universal Health Services, Inc. ranks 3 of 6 by dividend yield among these companies; 2 yield more.

Company	Yield	P/E	Price
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA (FMS)	3.63%	12.64	$23.69
Chemed Corp (CHE)	0.55%	25.48	$512.98
Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS)	0.46%	7.13	$186.89
Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (ACHC)	0.00%	-2.21	$31.51
Ardent Health, Inc. (ARDT)	0.00%	18.80	$12.27
Community Health Systems, Inc. (CYH)	0.00%	-1.20	$2.92