What does return on equity mean?

Trailing-twelve-month net income divided by average shareholders' equity (average of the start and end of the trailing-twelve-month window). Measures the profit generated on each dollar of shareholder capital.

Community Health Systems CYH Return on equity

Discontinued — last reported Q3 '17

Return on equity at other companies

Tenet HealthcareTHC

58.9%-2.7pp

Universal Health ServicesUHS

21.3%+3.0pp

ARD

Ardent Health PartnersARDT

10.7%-9.0pp

Nutex Health Inc.NUTX

35.5%-21.2pp

Surgery Partners, Inc.SGRY

-4.4%-1.6pp

National HealthcareNHC

12.1%+0.9pp

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$3.0B-6.1%

Gross profit$2.5B-5.5%

Operating income$281.0M-1.1%

Net income-$58.0M-346%

EPS (diluted)-$0.43-330%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$712.0M+65.2%

Total debt$11.0B-10.0%

Total equity-$1.5B+24.4%

Total assets$13.2B-5.1%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow-$297.0M-348%

CapEx$76.0M-10.6%

Free cash flow-$373.0M-1,166%

Valuation

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Market cap$450.93M-2.9%

Enterprise value$10.7B-12.4%

P/E1×—

P/S0×0.0×

Profitability

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Gross margin85.2%+0.6pp

Operating margin12.1%+7.4pp

Net margin3.8%+2.5pp

FCF margin-1.6%-2.8pp

Returns & leverage

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Debt / equity11.5×—

Current ratio1.5×0.0×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Community Health Systems’s reported figures.

net income/total stockholders equity=-43.9%

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Community Health Systems’s 10-Q, filed October 30, 2018, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

Questions, answered.

What does return on equity mean?: Trailing-twelve-month net income divided by average shareholders' equity (average of the start and end of the trailing-twelve-month window). Measures the profit generated on each dollar of shareholder capital.