Three of the five major for-profit hospital operators saw their stocks fall last week.
Shares of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare were down 3.94 percent last week, the most of any of the major for-profit hospital operators.
Shares of Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Hospitals and King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services were up last week.
- Community Health Systems (Franklin, Tenn.): $50.22 per share (down 1.12 percent)
- Hospital Corporation of America (Nashville, Tenn.): $71.81 per share (down 1.39 percent)
- LifePoint Hospitals (Brentwood, Tenn.): $73.00 per share (up 0.97 percent)
- Tenet Healthcare Corp. (Dallas): $47.29 per share (down 3.94 percent)
- Universal Health Services (King of Prussia, Pa.): $114.08 per share (up 0.02 percent)
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