HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) on Tuesday, soared 0.15% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $334.30. Within the past 52 weeks, HCA’s price has moved between $289.98 and $417.14.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Healthcare sector was 6.69%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 13.19%. With a float of $181.00 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $253.30 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 310000 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. 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 Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Medical Care Facilities industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of HCA Healthcare Inc is 28.54%, while institutional ownership is 64.31%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jan 31 ’25, was worth 1,082,203. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 14 ’24, when Company’s SVP & Chief Ethics Officer sold 1,474 for $357.99, making the entire transaction worth $527,677. This insider now owns 9,454 shares in total.
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 6.32 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 13.19% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.16% during the next five years compared to 16.93% growth over the previous five years of trading.
HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) Trading Performance Indicators
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.97 was reported for the most recent quarter. 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 15.04.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 21.99, a number that is poised to hit 5.78 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 27.96 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 1.69 million, its volume of 1.25 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 78.95%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 9.08.
During the past 100 days, HCA Healthcare Inc’s (HCA) raw stochastic average was set at 35.25%, which indicates a significant decrease from 85.17% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 33.66% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 28.41% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $315.48, while its 200-day Moving Average is $344.96. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $336.93 in the near term. At $339.05, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $342.41. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $331.45, it is likely to go to the next support level at $328.09. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $325.97.
HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 84.80 billion based on 253,297K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 70,603 M and income totals 5,760 M. The company made 18,285 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 1,438 M in sales during its previous quarter.
