A new trading day began on Tuesday, with HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) stock price down -1.49% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $340.62. HCA’s price has ranged from $289.98 to $417.14 over the past 52 weeks.
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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%. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 13.43%. With a float of $174.51 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $249.98 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 316000 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 50.44%, operating margin of 14.94%, and the pretax margin is 12.07%.
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
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 29.12%, while institutional ownership is 65.64%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 14 ’25, was worth 3,075,240. In this transaction SVP & Chief Human Res. Officer of this company sold 9,533 shares at a rate of $322.59, taking the stock ownership to the 15,412 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 14 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 9,533 for $322.59, making the entire transaction worth $3,075,238.
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) Recent Fiscal highlights
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 6.3 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 13.43% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.18% 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
Here are HCA Healthcare Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.97. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.17. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 14.65.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 21.99, a number that is poised to hit 5.75 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 27.92 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 1.78 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 51.74%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 11.26.
During the past 100 days, HCA Healthcare Inc’s (HCA) raw stochastic average was set at 71.91%, which indicates a significant increase from 48.98% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 27.77% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 29.09% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $327.97, while its 200-day Moving Average is $345.68. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $339.54 in the near term. At $343.53, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $345.68. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $333.41, it is likely to go to the next support level at $331.26. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $327.27.
HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 82.61 billion, the company has a total of 246,203K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 70,603 M while annual income is 5,760 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 18,285 M while its latest quarter income was 1,438 M.
