Currently, HCA Healthcare Inc’s (HCA) stock is trading at $324.82, marking a fall of -2.23% from last night’s close. At this price, the stock is -22.13% below its 52-week high of $417.14 and 32.13% above its 52-week low of $245.84. Based on the past 30-day period, the stock price is -20.93% below the high and +1.45% above the low.
The 200-day Simple moving average is often placed more emphasis on by traders because of daily price changes. Investors will use the SMA-200 in different situations in trading activity as a key indicator to determine their support and resistance levels, and at the moment, HCA’s SMA-200 is $346.36.
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As well, it is important to consider HCA stock ratios such as price-to-sales, which is currently 1.18.Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the last twelve months stands at 13.99.
How does HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) stock rate among analysts? Buy, sell, or hold?
The key to trading is to concentrate on the future rather than on the past. During uncertain times, it can be hard to make decisions. The analysts who understand how a market works are usually the most accurate at forecasting its future. Currently, there are 25 brokerage firms that recommend the stock as a Strong Buy. The ratings are commonly aggregated into a single number between 1 and 5. Buy or strong buy is scored 5, outperform is scored 4, hold is scored 3, underperform is scored 2 and strong sell is 1. Using a scale of 1-5, the current average recommendation is 4.52 in simple terms.
HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA): Earnings History
Most analysts expect public companies to report earnings and revenue in line with their projections, but sometimes these figures vary from what they actually expected. In the current quarter, the company had earnings predictions made by 11 different analysts, who are expecting earnings to fall in between the range of 6.68 and 5.84 with an average Earnings Estimate of 6.14 which is in contrast with the last year earnings estimate of 5.90 and also replicates 4.07% growth rate year over year.
HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE: HCA) Ownership Details
I will give a breakdown of the key shareholders in HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA). Recent figures show that the company’s insiders hold 28.42% of shares. A total of 1,666 institutional investors hold shares in the company, making 63.53% of its stock and 88.75% of its float.
Sep 30, 2024, it was reported that the Company’s largest institutional holder is Vanguard Group Inc holding total of 16.02 shares that make 6.32% of the company’s total number of shares and are currently priced at 5.23 billion.
The securities firm Blackrock Inc. holds 15.47 shares of HCA, making it the second largest institutional shareholder. Taking this into account, the holding percentage comes to 6.11%, and the holding percentage of shares is valued at 5.05 billion.
An overview of HCA Healthcare Inc’s technicals
In order to learn about trade movements and investor behavior, it is best to analyze the short, medium, and long term technical indicators along with the average volume of a stock. A 20-day average of the stock’s daily volume suggests HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) traded 1,544,119 shares per day, with a moving average of $349.51 and price change of -38.73. With the moving average of $379.40 and a price change of -69.86, about 1,398,462 shares changed hands on average over the past 50 days. Finally, HCA’s 100-day average volume is 1,304,826 shares, alongside a moving average of $370.05 and a price change of -1.73.
