Community Health Systems Q2 profit falls to $70 million; revenue down 9.8%
Community Health Systems reported second-quarter 2026 results that show lower revenue, profit and adjusted EBITDA than a year earlier, and it updated its 2026 annual earnings guidance. The filing does not state the guidance figures in the text reviewed, so the direction of the change is not stated. The decline is partly tied to hospital divestitures, which reduced admissions by 11.4 percent.
Key points
- Net operating revenues were $2.825 billion, down 9.8 percent from $3.133 billion a year earlier; same-store revenues rose 2.4 percent.
- Net income attributable to stockholders was $70 million, or $0.51 per diluted share, versus $282 million, or $2.09, in the second quarter of 2025.
- Adjusted EBITDA was $330 million, compared with $380 million a year earlier, a decline of 13.2 percent.
- The company issued updated 2026 annual earnings guidance, with tables on pages 16 and 17 of the press release; those figures are not in the text reviewed.
The filing
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