HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA) saw an uptrend of 3.07% in the recent trading with $355.06 being its most recent. The current price level -14.88% lower than the highest price of $417.14 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 22.44% higher than the lowest price of $289.98 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on HCA appeared in (Zacks) under the title “HUM Misses Q2 Earnings on Higher Benefit Costs, Ups ’25 EPS View” on Today.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 20 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.07 for the stock.
HCA Healthcare Inc Earnings – What Happened With HCA
Coming around sales and income figures on HCA Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor.
HCA Healthcare Inc – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 240.57 million. HCA does have institutional investors; and they hold 65.64% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC was the top most holder in HCA Healthcare Inc (NYSE:HCA) with an ownership of 16.84 million shares of the company or 6.3976 of the stake worth $5.41 billion. The filing also reveals BLACKROCK INC. as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 5.6425 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $4.77 billion for having 14.85 million shares in hand.
SANDERS CAPITAL, LLC also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 4.3769 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 1710.0 institutions which have possession in HCA’s shares.
