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UHT, Universal Health Realty Income Trust

We are a real estate investment trust that commenced operations in 1986.

We invest in healthcare and human service related facilities currently including acute care hospitals, behavioral health care hospitals, specialty facilities, free-standing emergency departments, childcare centers and medical/office buildings.

As of February 25, 2026, we have investments in seventy-seven facilities located in twenty-one states and consisting of the following: 1 Facility Name Location Type of Facility Ownership Guarantor McAllen Medical Center (A) McAllen, TX Acute Care 100% Universal Health Services, Inc.

Latest annual: FY2025 10-K
UHT · Universal Health Realty Income Trust
I

The business

What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.

Revenue · FY2025
$99M
+0.2% YoY · 5% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue $99M 5-yr avg $94M
FFO margin 45% 5-yr avg 48%
Dividend payout (FFO) 92% 5-yr avg 75%
Debt / assets 66% 5-yr avg 60%

The business in brief

read the 10-K →

What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.

What moves the needle
Occupancy, rents, and the cost of debt. Read on funds from operations and net asset value, because GAAP depreciation distorts the earnings, and a property downturn meets a balance sheet built on leverage. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on concentrated dependence, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
Is it a good business?
Funds from operations per share have been roughly flat (1% a year). The dividend takes 92% of FFO, and is covered. Debt is 66% of assets, heavy for a REIT. The quality and location of the properties, the lease terms and occupancy, and the cost of the debt are what the 10-K settles, and no single ratio captures them.

Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.

II

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, 2016–2025

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2016’162017’172018’182019’192020’202021’212022’222023’232024’242025’25TTMTTMMar 2026
Income statement
$67M$72M$76M$77M$78M$84M$91M$96M$99M$99M$99MRevenueRevenue
$17M$46M$24M$19M$19M$109M$21M$15M$19M$18M$18MNet incomeNet inc.
Cash flow & returns
$40M$71M$49M$43M$45M$137M$48M$43M$47M$46M$45MFunds from operationsFFO
Balance sheet
87%51%75%87%84%28%82%92%87%88%92%Dividend payout (FFO)Payout
$534M$547M$558M$573M$605M$609M$641M$649M$656M$666M$672MReal estate (gross)RE gross
$525M$490M$484M$489M$494M$598M$608M$596M$581M$565M$564MTotal assetsAssets
60%52%54%56%60%55%56%60%63%66%66%Debt / assetsDebt/assets
$316M$257M$262M$274M$295M$329M$343M$360M$368M$375M$375MTotal debtDebt
$312M$253M$257M$268M$290M$307M$335M$351M$361M$368M$368MNet debt / (cash)Net debt
$191M$211M$199M$182M$159M$235M$229M$201M$180M$152M$148MShareholders’ equityEquity
Per share
13.5M13.6M13.7M13.8M13.8M13.8M13.8M13.8M13.8M13.9M13.9MShares out (diluted)Shares
$2.99$5.19$3.58$3.12$3.27$9.92$3.45$3.12$3.37$3.35$3.23FFO / shareFFO/sh
$2.61$2.65$2.68$2.72$2.76$2.80$2.84$2.88$2.92$2.96$2.97Dividends / shareDiv/sh
$14.20$15.45$14.47$13.22$11.55$17.08$16.61$14.55$12.97$10.99$10.65Book value / shareBVPS
Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
9-yr5-yr
Revenue / share+4.1%/yr+4.8%/yr
Owner earnings / share+10.0%/yr (7-yr)−2.0%/yr
EPS−0.1%/yr−2.1%/yr
Dividends / share+1.4%/yr+1.4%/yr
Capital spending / share−25.9%/yr (7-yr)+13.3%/yr
Book value / share−2.8%/yr−1.0%/yr

The record, charted

FY2016–2025

Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.

Share count
14Mpeak FY2025
Revenue
$99Mlow FY2016
III

Quality & stewardship

Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.

Owner’s Scorecard

FY2025 10-K · source on SEC EDGAR →

Is it a good business?

  • about $3.21 per share
    Net income $18M + depreciation $29M − gains on sale $2M
    What this means

    GAAP net income with property depreciation added back, because the buildings a REIT charges against earnings usually hold or grow their value. This, not net income, is what a REIT is actually priced on. It is an approximation here: where a filing reports gains on property sales, we remove them, the way the NAREIT definition does.

  • Covered
    Dividends $41M ÷ FFO $45M
    Industry peers: median 88%
    What this means

    A REIT must distribute most of its taxable income, so a high payout is normal and the question is whether FFO covers it. Above 100%, the trust is funding the dividend with debt or asset sales, and a cut usually follows.

Is it sound?

  • Heavy
    Total debt $375M ÷ assets $565M
    Industry peers: median 36%
    What this means

    Every REIT runs on leverage; how much is the question. Heavy debt is what turns a property downturn into a wipeout, as 2008 showed, so a conservative balance sheet is part of the moat here, not a drag on it.

  • Strong
    (operating income + depreciation) ÷ interest $8M
    Industry peers: median 4.0×
    What this means

    How many times the property cash earnings cover the interest bill. Comfortable coverage is what lets a REIT refinance through a tight credit market instead of being forced to sell into one.

Does AI threaten the moat?

Low contestability

The moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.

AI is unlikely to contest a moat that is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded; here it reads more as a cost tool than a threat.

Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.

All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.

Management, ownership & pay

read the proxy →

From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid, beside what the business earned for its owners in the same years.

Fiscal yearChief executivePay, as filed“Actually paid”Owner earnings
2021Alan B. Miller$236k$206k$35M
2022Alan B. Miller$235k$159k$33M
2023Alan B. Miller$241k$204k$35M
2024Alan B. Miller$256k$243k
2025Alan B. Miller$269k$324k

Both pay figures are the company’s own, from the pay-versus-performance table its proxy statement files. “As filed” is the Summary Compensation Table total: salary, bonus, and equity awards at their value on the day of grant. “Actually paid” is the SEC’s prescribed recalculation, which re-marks those equity awards to what they became as they vested; it can swing far above or below the filed figure in either direction, and negative years occur. Owner earnings are the whole business's, from the record above, for the same fiscal years.

  • Insider ownership2.6%

    The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2026 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.

  • Stock-based compensation$936K

    The slice of the business handed to employees in shares this year, 1% of revenue, equal to 3% of operating profit. Buffett's oldest accounting fight: this is compensation, compensation is an expense, real whether or not the headline earnings admit it. One trap: the cash-flow statement adds SBC back, so the operating cash, and the owner earnings drawn from it, are flattered by exactly this amount; counted as the cost it is, what an owner keeps is lower.

Peers, Healthcare REITs

The same industry, side by side on the REIT lens. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.

CompanyRevenueFFO marginFFO / assetsPayout (FFO)Debt / assets
SBRASabra Health Care REIT$775M43%5.1%95%45%
CTRECareTrust REIT$476M61%6.5%80%37%
NHPNational Healthcare Properties Inc.$342M-2%-0.3%181%25%
LTCLTC Properties$263M57%6.4%88%45%
SILASila Realty Trust Inc.$198M52%4.0%72%19%
XRNChiron Real Estate Inc.$148M32%3.2%14%
CHCTCommunity Healthcare Trust Incorporated$121M53%5.5%107%35%
UHTUniversal Health Realty Income Trust$99M56%8.5%85%58%
Group median52%5.3%87%37%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

price / FFO

A REIT is priced on a multiple of its funds from operations (FFO), the cash it earns once the depreciation on its buildings is added back. Type today’s price; we show the multiple you would pay and the income and growth it implies.

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The assumptions

FFO / share, delivered−9%/yr’20→’25

The justified multiple is 1 ÷ (required return − growth), a perpetuity on FFO. At an 8% required return and 3% growth, a REIT is worth about 20× FFO.

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Price / FFO
Justified by growth
Dividend yield

FFO about $3.23 per share on 14M shares. The dials set the multiple they justify; your price sets the multiple you are paying. FFO here adds back depreciation and removes property-sale gains, the NAREIT method; it does not net out maintenance capex (AFFO), occupancy or lease terms, which the 10-K does.

Cite: Owner Scorecard, "Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/UHT, data as of 2026-07-09.

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