Short interest in Universal Health Services Inc (NYSE:UHS) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.53M to 1.91M. This put 4.55% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Universal Health Servs gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Universal Health Servs's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 518.26K shares traded per day, it would take 3.69 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.