Company: UHS
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-027785
Chunk: 91

Company: UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1B
Chunk 91
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0.01

    250,000

    $
    180.03

    $
    45,008

    $
    824,361

    Total October through   December
     
    $
    —

    1,254,398

    —

    $
    0.01

    1,251,745

    $
    199.42

    $
    249,620

(1)Includes shares that were repurchased in connection with income tax withholding obligations resulting from the exercise of stock options and the vesting of restricted stock grants. 

(2)The only publicly announced program pursuant to which the shares were repurchased was the share repurchase program described above.  There is no other plan or program that has expired during this time period.  Also, there is no other plan or program that we have determined to terminate prior to expiration, or under which we do not intend to make further purchases.

Dividends

During the year ended December 31, 2024 we paid dividends of $0.80 per share.  Dividend equivalents are accrued on unvested restricted stock units and are paid upon vesting of the restricted stock unit. 

Our Credit Agreement contains covenants that include limitations on, among other things, dividends and stock repurchases (see below in Capital Resources-Credit Facilities and Outstanding Debt Securities).

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Equity Compensation

Refer to Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters, of this report for information regarding securities authorized for issuance under our equity compensation plans.

Stock Price Performance Graph

The following graph compares the cumulative total stockholder return on our common stock with the cumulative total return on the stock included in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and a Peer Group Index during the five-year period ended December 31, 2024. The graph assumes an investment of $100 made in our common stock and each Index as of January 1, 2020 and has been weighted based on market capitalization. Note that our common stock price performance shown below should not be viewed as being indicative of future performance.

Companies in the peer group, which consist of companies in the S&P 500 Index or S&P MidCap 400 Index are as follows: Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc., Community Health Systems, Inc., HCA Healthcare, Inc., and Tenet Healthcare Corporation.

    Company Name / Index
     
    2019 Base

    2020

    2021