HCA Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Hca Healthcare | NYSE:HCA)

HCA Healthcare is a Nashville-based healthcare provider organization operating the largest collection of acute-care hospitals in the United States. As of December 2024, the firm owned and operated 190 hospitals, 124 freestanding outpatient surgery centers, and a broad network of physician offices, urgent-care clinics, and freestanding emergency rooms across 20 states and a small foothold in England.

Hca Healthcare trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol HCA.

As of December 8, 2025, HCA stock price declined to $485.15 with 989,452 million shares trading.

HCA has a beta of 0.27, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. HCA has a correlation of 0.03 to the broad based SPY ETF.

HCA has a market cap of $110.71 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Hca Healthcare reported $19 billion in Revenue and $6.96 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $625 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $1.26.

In the last 3 years, HCA traded as high as $520.00 and as low as $215.96.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that HCA belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, IVV, SPY, VTV.

HCA has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +52.6%, while the SPY ETF gained +13.7%. In the last 3 month period, HCA beat the market returning +16.2%, while SPY returned +5.6%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks HCA has underperformed the stock market by returning -3.2%, while SPY returned +2.2%.

HCA support price is $477.73 and resistance is $495.67 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that HCA shares will trade within this expected range on the day.