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Seasonal Chart Analysis

Analysis of the Universal Health Services – Class B (NYSE:UHS) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of January 4 and a Sell Date of May 24 has resulted in a geometric average return of 7.1% above the benchmark rate of the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the past 20 years. This seasonal timeframe has shown positive results compared to the benchmark in 17 of those periods. This is a very good rate of success and the return strongly outperforms the relative buy-and-hold performance of the stock over the past 20 years by an average of 5.69% per year.

The seasonal timeframe correlates Poorly with the period of seasonal strength for the Healthcare sector, which runs from April 25 to December 4. The seasonal chart for the broad sector is available via the following link: Healthcare Sector Seasonal Chart.

Universal Health Services, Inc. engages in providing hospital and healthcare services. It operates through the following segments: Acute Care Hospital Services, Behavioral Health Care Services, and Other. The Acute Care Hospital Services segment includes hospitals, freestanding emergency departments, and ambulatory centers. The Behavioral Health Care Services segment offers treatment programs for depression, anxiety, psychotic diagnoses, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and neurorehabilitation. The Other segment consists of centralized services such as information technology, purchasing, reimbursement, accounting and finance, taxation, legal, advertising, and design and construction. The company was founded by Alan B. Miller in 1979 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA.

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