During the last session, HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE:HCA)’s traded shares were 0.88 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.41. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $376.07, reflecting an intraday loss of -0.59% or -$2.25. The 52-week high for the HCA share is $417.14, that puts it down -10.92 from that peak though still a striking 22.89% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $289.98. The company’s market capitalization is $90.47B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 1.24 million shares, and the average trade volume was 1.48 million shares over the past three months.
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.97. HCA has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 20 analysts who have looked at this stock. 3 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 17 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 6.27.
HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE:HCA) trade information
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) registered a -0.59% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -0.59% in intraday trading to $376.07, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -0.14%, and it has moved by 3.06% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 25.29%. The short interest in HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE:HCA) is 4.64 million shares and it means that shorts have 3.21 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $413, which implies an increase of 8.94% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $410 and $416 respectively. As a result, HCA is trading at a discount of -10.62% off the target high and -9.02% off the low.
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 5.85% compared to the previous financial year.
As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 18.49B as predicted by 18 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 18 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 18.49B by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 17.49B and 17.49B respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 5.68% and then jump by 5.71% in the coming quarter.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 16.93%. While earnings are projected to return 15.39% in 2025, the next five years will return 12.92% per annum.
HCA Dividends
HCA Healthcare Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Apr-25. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for HCA Healthcare Inc is 2.76, with the dividend yield indicating at 0.73 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 0.76%.
HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE:HCA)’s Major holders
HCA Healthcare Inc insiders own 30.00% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 65.29%, with the float percentage being 93.27%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 1698.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 16.84 million shares (or 6.3976% of all shares), a total value of $5.41 billion in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 14.85 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 5.6425% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $4.77 billion.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . Data provided on Mar 31, 2025 indicates that VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 5.49 shares. This amounts to just over 2.28 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $2.06 billion market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 4.97, or about 2.07% of the stock, which is worth about $1.87 billion.
