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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

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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
10B20B
2008201120142017202020232025
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%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +1.2% a year over the five years to FY2025.

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%
200820162025
ROE
FY2016 · ROE -61.1%
5%10%-20%-40%-60%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on equityNot applicable: equity was zero or negative in this period, so return on equity has no meaning.
Gross margin85.1%
Operating margin11.9%
Net margin5.4%
EBITDA·

Return on equity has no reading this year — return on capital employed, just below, still does: 13%.

Cash & shareholders

·
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF 0.2
1.00B2.00B-0.25B-0.50B
200820162025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2015 · Dividends · · Net buybacks 134.0
50M100M-30M-60M
2008201020112012201320142015
Dividends paid·
Net buybacks·
Share of profit·
Consecutive raises·

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

Equity was zero or negative — liabilities equaled or 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—not applicable◌not available in our data
CYH, 18-year financial record
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 %—————————−61.13.92.64.910.48.813.513.413.1
Shares out B0.140.140.140.130.130.130.120.120.110.110.110.120.100.090.090.090.09◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 70 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Nine checks were skipped: cost of revenue is not tagged before 2016. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. One check was skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityServices-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, NEC
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2008

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