All five major for-profit hospital operators saw their stock prices rise last week.
Up 7.2 percent last week, shares of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare rose the most of any of the for-profit hospital operators.
Here is how the five operators stack up.
- Community Health Systems (Franklin, Tenn.): $53.78 per share (up 4.37 percent).
- Hospital Corporation of America (Nashville, Tenn.): $82.14 per share (up 2.87 percent).
- LifePoint Health (previously LifePoint Hospitals)(Brentwood, Tenn.): $76.15 per share (up 4.02 percent).
- Tenet Healthcare Corp. (Dallas): $51.94 per share (up 7.2 percent).
- Universal Health Services (King of Prussia, Pa.): $126.81 per share (up 3.73 percent).
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