HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) on Tuesday, plunged -2.17% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $373.01. 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 6.58%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 15.34%. With a float of $170.53 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $242.96 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 67.91%, operating margin of 15.15%, and the pretax margin is 12.02%.
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Observing investor behavior towards Medical Care Facilities industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of HCA Healthcare Inc is 29.11%, while institutional ownership is 65.53%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 13 ’25, was worth 5,797,661. In this transaction EVP and COO of this company sold 15,698 shares at a rate of $369.32, taking the stock ownership to the 12,646 shares. Before that another transaction happened on May 13 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 15,698 for $369.32, making the entire transaction worth $5,797,660.
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) Recent Fiscal highlights
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 15.34% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.88% 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 1.06 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 1.23. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 17.74.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 22.51, a number that is poised to hit 6.26 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 28.02 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 1.63 million, its volume of 1.31 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 54.90%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 9.59.
During the past 100 days, HCA Healthcare Inc’s (HCA) raw stochastic average was set at 74.88%, which indicates a significant increase from 28.47% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 16.90% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 32.35% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $356.17, while its 200-day Moving Average is $349.07.
