HCA Healthcare Inc. (HCA): Price and Financial Metrics

HCA POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where HCA ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 86.76% of US stocks.
• HCA's strongest trending metric is Sentiment; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• HCA ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 17th percentile.

HCA Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for HCA is -62.97 -- better than merely 0.38% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of HCA Healthcare Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 0.5% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• HCA's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of only 0.26% of US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to HCA Healthcare Inc are HLT, SBUX, EOG, PXD, and SO.
• Visit HCA's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.hcahealthcare.com.

HCA Valuation Summary

• HCA's price/earnings ratio is 16.3; this is 55.34% lower than that of the median Healthcare stock.
• Over the past 128 months, HCA's price/earnings ratio has gone up 3.1.
• HCA's price/earnings ratio has moved up 3.1 over the prior 128 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for HCA.

HCA Growth Metrics

Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 25.81%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 18.65%.
• The 3 year price growth rate now stands at 55.27%.

Over the past 34 months, HCA's revenue has gone up $10,981,000,000.

The table below shows HCA's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	58,752	8,959	6,956
2021-09-30	57,981	2,933	6,568
2021-06-30	56,016	3,373	4,967
2021-03-31	52,649	9,845	4,596
2020-12-31	51,533	9,232	3,754
2020-09-30	50,763	15,320	3,399

HCA's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• HCA has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 83.06% of graded US stocks.
• HCA's asset turnover comes in at 1.205 -- ranking 15th of 81 Healthcare stocks.
• SEM, RHE, and EHC are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with HCA.

The table below shows HCA's key quality metrics over time.