All five of the major for-profit hospital operators saw their stock prices fall last week.
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare saw the largest decrease in share price, with its shares falling 8.6 percent last week. Tenet has dropped 37.38 percent during the last three-month period.
Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Health saw its share price fall 0.2 percent last week, the least of any of the major for-profit hospital operators.
Here is how the five operators' stock prices stacked up last week.
- Community Health Systems (Franklin, Tenn.): $25.21 per share (down 7.3 percent)
- Hospital Corporation of America (Nashville, Tenn.): $64.51 per share (down 2.7 percent)
- LifePoint Health (Brentwood, Tenn.): $69.41 per share (down 0.2 percent)
- Tenet Healthcare (Dallas): $27.42 per share (down 8.6 percent)
- Universal Health Services (King of Prussia, Pa.): $115 per share (down 3.7 percent)
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