For-profit hospital stock report: Week of July 18-22

All five major for-profit hospital operators saw their stock prices rise last week.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare saw the largest increase in share price, with shares rising 5.1 percent.

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems saw its share price rise 0.6 percent last week, the least of any of the major for-profit hospital operators.

Here is how the five operators' stock prices stacked up.

  • Community Health Systems (Franklin, Tenn.): $12.98 per share (up 0.6 percent)
  • HCA Holdings (Nashville, Tenn.): $80.35 per share (up 2.6 percent)
  • LifePoint Health (Brentwood, Tenn.): $66.33 per share (up 1.1 percent)
  • Tenet Healthcare (Dallas): $31.46 per share (up 5.1 percent)
  • Universal Health Services (King of Prussia, Pa.): $138.23 per share (up 2.2 percent)

 

 

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