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How to buy HCA (HCA) stocks in Canada

Learn how to easily invest in HCA stocks.

HCA

NYSE: HCA-USD

About an hour ago

$318.45

-$0.98 (-0.31%)

Buy HCA Stock

HCA is a medical care facilities business based in the US. HCA shares (HCA.US) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $319.43 – an increase of 2.94% over the previous day. HCA employs 220,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $65 billion.

How to buy shares in HCA

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Is it a good time to buy HCA stock?

Only you can make the decision on the time to leap... but here's some supporting information and analysis.

Use our graph to track the performance of HCA stocks over time.

Share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, HCA's shares have ranged in value from as little as $215.0256 up to $335.83. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while HCA's is 1.672. This would suggest that HCA's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Historical closes compared with the last close of $319.43

1 week (2024-04-16)	2.70%
1 month (2024-03-21)	-3.19%
3 months (2024-01-23)	14.52%
6 months (2023-10-23)	38.81%
1 year (2023-04-23)	11.59%
2 years (2022-04-21)	51.65%
3 years (2021-04-22)	57.74%
5 years (2019-04-23)	157.94%

The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.

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Is HCA under- or over-valued?

Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the HCA P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA

HCA's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 16x. In other words, HCA stocks trade at around 16x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

HCA's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.4419. A PEG ratio over 1 can be interpreted as meaning shares are overvalued at the current rate of growth, or may anticipate an acceleration in growth.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into HCA's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.

HCA's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $12.7 billion ($17.4 billion CAD).

The EBITDA is a measure of a HCA's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Frequently asked questions

Dividend yield: 0.87% of stock value
Forward annual dividend yield: 0.87% of stock value
Dividend payout ratio: 12.91% of net profits

HCA has recently paid out dividends equivalent to 0.87% of its share value annually.

HCA has paid out, on average, around 12.91% of recent net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.87% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), shareholders could enjoy a 0.87% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In HCA's case, that would currently equate to about 2.4 per share.

While HCA's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that the company is investing more in its future growth.

HCA's most recent dividend payout was on 28 March 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 13 March 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
It's as easy to sell HCA as it is to buy! Here's how to sell HCA stocks that you already own.
1. Open your investment app. If you've got one with desktop access, you can log in online
2. Go to your portfolio. This should be in the main menu
3. Find your shares. You may be able to search your portfolio
4. Choose how many you'd like to sell. You'll be able to review the price and see how much you'll receive
5. Sell your HCA shares. Your investment platform will let you know when your shares are sold

HCA financials

Revenue TTM	$65 billion
Operating margin TTM	16.19%
Gross profit TTM	$23.2 billion
Return on assets TTM	11.08%
Return on equity TTM	12.34%
Profit margin	8.07%
Book value	$-6.68
Market capitalisation	$80.7 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

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