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 2025, the firm owned and operated 190 hospitals and over 2,500 outpatient facillities across 19 states and a small foothold in the United Kingdom

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

As of February 19, 2026, HCA stock price declined to $528.66 with 774,044 million shares trading.

HCA has a beta of 0.24, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. HCA has a correlation of 0.02 to the broad based SPY ETF.

HCA has a market cap of $118.22 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Hca Healthcare reported $20 billion in Revenue and $8.01 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-145 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.59.

In the last 3 years, HCA traded as high as $552.90 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 price return of +67.8% while the SPY ETF gained +13.1%. HCA has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +10.7% and +7.1%, respectively, while the SPY returned +4.0% and -0.2%, respectively.

HCA support price is $524.59 and resistance is $545.45 (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.