Name: Universal Health Services (UHS) shares outstanding since 1999, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
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Shares outstanding, 1999 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

1999, 128,950,6522025-12-31, 63,581,000

Early years use the fiscal-year average share count from the 10-K.

A share bought in 1999

2.0× more of Universal Health Services today, without buying another share. It was one of 128,950,652 shares then. It is one of 63,581,000 now.

Every filing we read27 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
1999	1999-01-31	128,950,652	10-K	cover page
2000	2000-01-31	122,636,788	10-K405	cover page
2001	2001-01-31	119,711,864	10-K	cover page
2002	2002-01-31	119,804,436	10-K	cover page
2003	2003-01-31	118,091,266	10-K	cover page
2004	2004-01-31	116,198,294	10-K	cover page
2005	2005-01-31	115,477,072	10-K	cover page
2006	2006-01-31	108,352,814	10-K	cover page
2007	2007-01-31	107,754,368	10-K	cover page
2008	2008-12-31	101,222,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2009	2009-12-31	97,794,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2010	2010-12-31	96,786,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2011	2011-12-31	97,199,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2012	2012-12-31	96,821,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2013	2013-12-31	98,033,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2014	2014-12-31	98,826,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2015	2015-12-31	98,797,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2016	2016-12-31	97,208,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2017	2017-12-31	95,652,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2018	2018-12-31	93,276,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2019	2019-12-31	88,762,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2020	2020-12-31	85,061,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2021	2021-12-31	82,519,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2022	2022-12-31	73,118,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2023	2023-12-31	69,321,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2024	2024-12-31	66,554,000	10-K	fiscal-year average
2025	2025-12-31	63,581,000	10-K	fiscal-year average

Source: all 10-K filings of Universal Health Services on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.

What the buybacks cost, since fiscal 2008cash flow statement against share count

$7Bspent on buybacks

44Mfewer shares outstanding

$158spent per share that actually disappeared

$932Mpaid in stock compensation over the same years

Part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. That part costs money and retires nothing, so the cost per share that disappeared is higher than the average price the company paid.

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