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HCA is a medical care facilities business based in the US. HCA shares (HCA) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars.
Its last market close was $330.15 – an increase of 6.06% over the previous week. HCA employs 226,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $70.6 billion.Note: The dollar amounts in the table below are in Canadian dollars.
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Latest market close | $330.15 |
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52-week range | $289.98 - $416.26 |
50-day moving average | $315.67 |
200-day moving average | $345.60 |
Wall St. target price | $374.89 |
PE ratio | 15 |
Dividend yield | $2.64 (0.9%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | $22.01 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $330.15 from 2025-03-07
1 week (2025-03-03) | 6.06% |
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1 month (2025-02-10) | 3.74% |
3 months (2024-12-10) | 4.22% |
6 months (2024-09-10) | -14.56% |
1 year (2024-03-08) | 1.47% |
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2 years (2023-03-10) | 36.16% |
3 years (2022-03-10) | 27.00% |
5 years (2020-03-10) | 183.72% |
Valuing HCA stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of HCA's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
HCA's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 15x. In other words, HCA shares trade at around 15x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the stock 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 1.028. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer worse value.
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 $13.9 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a HCA's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | $70.6 billion |
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Operating margin TTM | 15.56% |
Gross profit TTM | $28.7 billion |
Return on assets TTM | 11.39% |
Return on equity TTM | 82.44% |
Profit margin | 8.16% |
Book value | $-10.00 |
Market Capitalization | $82 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 11.89% of net profits
Recently HCA has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), HCA shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In HCA's case, that would currently equate to about $2.64 per share.
While HCA's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that HCA is investing more in its future growth.
HCA's most recent dividend payout was on 30 March 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their stocks by 16 March 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, HCA's stocks have ranged in value from as little as $289.98 up to $416.2575. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta."
Beta is a measure of a stocks volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while HCA's is 1.689. This would suggest that HCA's stocks are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
HCA Healthcare, Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates hospitals and related healthcare entities in the United States. It operates general and acute care hospitals that offers medical and surgical services, including inpatient care, intensive care, cardiac care, diagnostic, and emergency services; and outpatient services, such as outpatient surgery, laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology, and physical therapy. The company also operates outpatient health care facilities consisting of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers, freestanding emergency care facilities, urgent care facilities, walk-in clinics, diagnostic and imaging centers, rehabilitation and physical therapy centers, radiation and oncology therapy centers, physician practices, and various other facilities. In addition, it operates behavioral hospitals, which provide therapeutic programs comprising child, adolescent and adult psychiatric care, adolescent and adult alcohol, drug abuse treatment, and counseling services. The company was formerly known as HCA Holdings, Inc. HCA Healthcare, Inc.
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