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

HCA POWR Grades

• HCA scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 84.45% of US stocks.
• HCA's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• HCA's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 29.28% of US stocks).

HCA Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for HCA is -16.33 -- better than merely 1.2% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of HCA HEALTHCARE INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; only 0.44% 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 0.78% of US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to HCA, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are HLT, EXN, MMLP, SBUX, and PXD.
• HCA's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit HCA HEALTHCARE INC's official web site, go to www.hcahealthcare.com.

HCA Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Healthcare stock, HCA's EV/EBIT ratio is 16.25% higher, now standing at 9.3.
• Over the past 140 months, HCA's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 1.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for HCA.

HCA Growth Metrics

The 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 123.37%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at 7.58%.
• The 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 45.19%.

HCA's revenue has moved up $15,691,000,000 over the prior 52 months.

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
2022-06-30	60,105	7,695	6,511
2022-03-31	59,720	8,316	6,806
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

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.