HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) kicked off on Tuesday, up 1.02% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $325.62. Over the past 52 weeks, HCA has traded in a range of $245.84-$417.14.
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Annual sales at Healthcare sector company grew by 6.95% over the past five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 15.60%. With a float of $182.34 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $265.54 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 310000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 50.04%, operating margin of 15.08%, and the pretax margin is 12.55%.
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Medical Care Facilities Industry. The insider ownership of HCA Healthcare Inc is 28.01%, while institutional ownership is 64.09%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 14 ’24, was worth 527,677. In this transaction SVP & Chief Ethics Officer of this company sold 1,474 shares at a rate of $357.99, taking the stock ownership to the 9,454 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 14 ’24, when Company’s SVP-Internal Audit Services sold 3,897 for $350.00, making the entire transaction worth $1,363,950. This insider now owns 52,702 shares in total.
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) Latest Financial update
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 9/30/2024, the organization reported 5.9 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 5.05) by 0.85. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 5.83 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 15.60% 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
Take a look at HCA Healthcare Inc’s (HCA) current performance indicators. Last quarter, 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 1.20. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 14.17.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 22.28, a number that is poised to hit 6.17 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 24.62 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA)
HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) saw its 5-day average volume 1.94 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 1.2 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 16.80%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 9.48.
During the past 100 days, HCA Healthcare Inc’s (HCA) raw stochastic average was set at 15.61%, which indicates a significant decrease from 23.08% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 19.02% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 26.45% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $376.48, while its 200-day Moving Average is $346.55. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $331.57 in the near term. At $334.20, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $338.08. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $325.06, it is likely to go to the next support level at $321.18. The third support level lies at $318.55 if the price breaches the second support level.
HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 83.32 billion has total of 253,297K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 64,968 M in contrast with the sum of 5,242 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 17,487 M and last quarter income was 1,270 M.
