A new trading day began on Friday, with HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) stock price down -8.86% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $398.90. HCA’s price has ranged from $220.55 to $417.14 over the past 52 weeks.
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Healthcare Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 6.95% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 18.10%. With a float of $185.65 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $265.54 million.
The firm has a total of 310000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 11.43%, operating margin of 4.02%, and the pretax margin is 5.36%.
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) Insider Activity
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Medical Care Facilities Industry. The insider ownership of HCA Healthcare Inc is 28.06%, while institutional ownership is 65.17%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Sep 12 ’24, was worth 3,221,340. In this transaction EVP and Chief Clinical Officer of this company sold 8,358 shares at a rate of $385.42, taking the stock ownership to the 29,678 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Sep 12 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 8,358 for $385.42, making the entire transaction worth $3,221,340.
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) Earnings and Forecasts
In its latest quarterly report, released on 9/30/2024, the company reported earnings of 5.93 per share, which was $0.1 higher than the consensus estimate of $0.26. In terms of return on equity, this company recorded -19.55% in contrast with 50.0% return on Investment (trailing twelve months). Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 5.77 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 18.10% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.00% during the next five years compared to 12.21% growth over the previous five years of trading.
HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are HCA Healthcare Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 1.00. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.35. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 15.96.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 22.28, a number that is poised to hit 6.60 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 24.96 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [HCA Healthcare Inc, HCA], we can find that recorded value of 1.87 million was better than the volume posted last year of 1.16 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 36.14%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 11.26.
During the past 100 days, HCA Healthcare Inc’s (HCA) raw stochastic average was set at 48.72%, which indicates a significant increase from 10.85% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 45.18% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 27.13% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $394.63, while its 200-day Moving Average is $340.74. Now, the first resistance to watch is $370.69. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $377.83. The third major resistance level sits at $384.66. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $356.72, it is likely to go to the next support level at $349.89. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $342.75.
HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 93.82 billion, the company has a total of 261,914K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 64,968 M while annual income is 5,242 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 17,487 M while its latest quarter income was 1,270 M.
