For-profit hospital stock report: Week of July 11-15

Three of the five major for-profit hospital operators saw their stock prices rise last week.

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Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare saw the largest increase in share price, with shares rising 3.7 percent.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Health and King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services saw their share prices fall.

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

  • Community Health Systems (Franklin, Tenn.): $12.90 per share (up 0.1 percent)
  • HCA Holdings (Nashville, Tenn.): $78.31 per share (up 0.1 percent)
  • LifePoint Health (Brentwood, Tenn.): $65.59 per share (down 1.5 percent)
  • Tenet Healthcare (Dallas): $29.94 per share (up 3.7 percent)
  • Universal Health Services (King of Prussia, Pa.): $135.23 per share (down 1.4 percent)

 

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