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Universal Health Realty Income Trust is a healthcare REIT focused on medical office buildings and acute care hospitals. The company's portfolio was stable in 2024, with FFO growth driven by lower operating expenses and higher revenues, which helped offset rising interest costs. FFO growth should continue in 2025, with the REIT benefitting from lease escalators and Fed rate cuts.

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Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE:UHS ) Q4 2024 Earnings Call February 27, 2025 10:00 AM ET Company Participants Steve Filton - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Marc Miller - Chief Executive Officer Conference Call Participants Andrew Mok - Barclays Ben Hendrix - RBC Capital Markets Ann Hynes - Mizuho Justin Lake - Wolfe Research Pito Chickering - Deutsche Bank Joanna Gajuk - Bank of America Stephen Baxter - Wells Fargo Sarah James - Cantor Fitzgerald AJ Rice - UBS Michael Ha - Baird Benjamin Rossi - JPMorgan Scott Fidel - Stephens Ryan Langston - TD Cowen Jamie Perse - Goldman Sachs Operator Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Fourth Quarter 2024 Universal Health Services Earnings Conference Call.

UHS' fourth-quarter earnings benefit from rising admissions and patient days. Higher expenses partially offset the positives.

Although the revenue and EPS for Universal Health Services (UHS) give a sense of how its business performed in the quarter ended December 2024, it might be worth considering how some key metrics compare with Wall Street estimates and the year-ago numbers.

Universal Health Services (UHS) came out with quarterly earnings of $4.92 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4.19 per share. This compares to earnings of $3.13 per share a year ago.

Hospital operator Universal Health Services beat fourth-quarter profit estimates on Wednesday, driven by robust demand for medical care that required hospital stays.

Consolidated Results of Operations, As Reported and As Adjusted  – Three-month periods ended December 31, 2024 and 2023: KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. , Feb. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) announced today that its reported net income attributable to UHS was $332.4 million, or $4.96 per diluted share, during the fourth quarter of 2024, as compared to $216.4 million, or $3.16 per diluted share, during the fourth quarter of 2023.

UHS' fourth-quarter earnings are likely to have benefited from growing admissions and patient days.