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NYSE · SERVICES-GENERAL MEDICAL & SURGICAL HOSPITALS, NEC · MID CAP

Community Health Systems Inc. CYH

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$12.5B
▼ 1.2% YoY
$509.0M
$208.0M
▲ 73.3% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Community Health Systems generates revenues by providing a broad range of general and specialized hospital healthcare services and outpatient services to patients in the communities in which it is located. Its affiliates develop and operate healthcare delivery systems in 36 distinct markets across 14 states. At December 31, 2025, its subsidiaries owned or leased 69 affiliated hospitals with more than 10,000 beds and operated more than 1,000 sites of care, including physician practices, urgent care centers, freestanding emergency departments, occupational medicine clinics, imaging centers, cancer centers, and ambulatory surgery centers. At December 31, 2025, the company employed approximately 1,700 physicians and an additional 1,400 licensed healthcare practitioners. At December 31, 2025, the company had approximately 57,000 employees, including approximately 13,000 part-time employees.

Written from the business description in COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 19 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 12.5B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 12.5 · Net income 0.5
8B16B2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+0.7%
+1.2%
−5.7%
−0.1%
+122.8%
−0.1%
+12.4%
+4.1%
+120.8%
−3.0%
+10.7%
+1.5%
+81.2%
+18.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +1.2% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
5 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 11.9% · Net 5.4%
5%10%-5%-10%-15%2008201120142017202020232025
ROE
FY2017 · ROE -580.0%
-200%-400%2008201120142017202020232025

Cash & shareholders
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF 0.2
0.8B1.6B-0.2B-0.4B2008201120142017202020232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2015 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 134.0
50M100M-40M-80M2008201020112012201320142015

Total assetsUSD 13.2B
EquityUSD -1.4B
CashUSD 260.0M
Gross debtUSD 10.4B
Net debtUSD 10.1B
Current ratio1.46×

Equity was negative — liabilities exceeded assets. No ratio is shown.

The 18-year record
18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B12.512.612.512.212.411.813.214.215.418.422.621.614.914.713.612.611.710.9
Operating income $B1.50.51.00.81.41.10.70.2−1.9−0.91.31.30.91.21.11.11.11.0
EBITDA $B······1.30.9−1.00.22.52.51.72.01.81.71.61.5
Income tax $B0.00.10.20.20.1−0.20.2−0.0−0.4−0.10.10.10.10.20.10.20.10.1
Net income $B0.5−0.5−0.10.00.20.5−0.7−0.8−2.5−1.70.20.10.10.30.20.30.20.2
Free cash flow $B0.20.1−0.3−0.1−0.61.7−0.1−0.30.20.4−0.00.80.50.50.50.50.50.4
EPS, diluted $3.77−3.90−1.020.351.764.39−5.93−6.99−22.00−15.541.370.821.512.962.233.012.662.32
Dividend / sh $·············0.25····
Payout %·············8····
ROE %········−580.0−61.13.92.64.910.48.813.512.5·
Shares out B0.140.140.140.130.130.130.120.120.110.110.110.120.100.090.090.090.09·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 70 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 15 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityServices-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, NEC
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2008

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