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

HCA POWR Grades

• HCA scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 95.71% of US stocks.
• HCA's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• HCA ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 13th percentile.

HCA Stock Summary

• HCA HEALTHCARE INC's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than merely 0.97% of US listed stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of HCA HEALTHCARE INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 0.48% 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 merely 1.23% of US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to HCA, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are HLT, EOG, PXD, BTI, and PSA.
• 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

• In comparison to the median Healthcare stock, HCA's price/sales ratio is 41.46% lower, now standing at 1.2.
• Over the past 144 months, HCA's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.7.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for HCA.

HCA Growth Metrics

Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -2.92%.
• The 4 year price growth rate now stands at 18.25%.
• The 3 year price growth rate now stands at 72.2%.

HCA's revenue has moved up $3,784,000,000 over the prior 15 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
2022-09-30	59,800	8,438	5,376
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

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.