Headquartered in Franklin, TN Fiscal year ends December NYSE: CYH chs.net
Community Health Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CYH) operates acute-care hospitals and outpatient healthcare delivery systems through its affiliates. It is focused largely on non-urban and mid-sized communities across 32 distinct markets in 12 states.
As of October 28, 2026, its subsidiaries own or lease 59 affiliated hospitals with more than 8,000 beds. They also operate more than 800 sites of care, including:
- Physician practices
- Urgent care centers
- Freestanding emergency departments
- Occupational medicine clinics
- Imaging centers
- Cancer centers
- Ambulatory surgery centers
Revenue is split roughly evenly between inpatient services (about 48%) and outpatient services (about 52%). It comes from Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurers and self-pay patients, supplemented by state supplemental reimbursement programs.
The company is highly leveraged, with roughly $9.6 billion of long-term debt and a stockholders' deficit. It has been executing a multi-year hospital divestiture program to reduce debt, cutting its portfolio from 70 hospitals a year earlier, including ten hospital divestitures completed during 2026. Updated
Guidance cuts land straight on the equity here: the market cap sits under $400 million against $9.57 billion of long-term debt. Management lowered full-year adjusted EBITDA guidance to $1.225 billion to $1.275 billion on worse payor mix and patient acuity, with EPS and revenue missing expectations.
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Community Health Systems is looking and acting like it is an implosion waiting to happen. The company has projected a loss for its third-quarter earnings report.
Jon C. Ogg Community Health Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CYH) operates acute-care hospitals and outpatient healthcare delivery systems through its affiliates. It is focused largely on non-urban and mid-sized communities across 32 distinct markets in 12 states.
The Wall Street consensus 12-month price target for CYH is $3.09.
