Crescimento médio anual do EPS de 8,90% nos últimos 10 anos.
"Our company, U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. (the “Company”), through its subsidiaries, operates outpatient physical therapy clinics that provide pre-and post-operative care and treatment for orthopedic-related disorders, sports-related injuries, preventative care, rehabilitation of injured workers and neurological-related injuries. We primarily operate through subsidiary clinic partnerships in which we generally own a 1% general partnership interest and a 49% to 99% limited partnership interest and the managing therapist(s) of the clinics owns the remaining limited partnership interest in the majority of the clinics (hereinafter referred to as “Clinic Partnerships”). To a lesser extent, we operate some clinics through wholly-owned subsidiaries under profit sharing arrangements with therapists (hereinafter referred to as “Wholly-Owned Facilities”). In March 2017, the Company acquired a 55% interest in a company which is a leading provider of workforce performance solutions. Services provided include onsite injury prevention and rehabilitation, performance optimization and ergonomic assessments. The majority of these services are contracted with and paid for directly by employers including a number of Fortune 500 companies. Other clients include large insurers and their contractors.
Unless the context otherwise requires, references in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to “we”, “our” or “us” includes the Company and all of its subsidiaries.
Our strategy is to develop outpatient physical therapy clinics and to acquire single and multi-clinic outpatient physical therapy practices on a national basis. At December 31, 2017, we operated 578 clinics in 41 states. The average age of the 578 clinics in operation at December 31, 2017 was 9.6 years. Our highest concentration of clinics are in the following states: Texas, Tennessee, Michigan, Virginia, Washington, Oregon, Maryland, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In addition to our 578 clinics, at December 31, 2017, we also managed 32 physical therapy practices for unrelated physician groups and hospitals and operated the workforce performance solutions business, as described above."
