HCA Healthcare (HCA)
Healthcare · NYSE · US
Price as at 13 Aug 2026, 06:03 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
HCA Healthcare trades at $414.59, which is 74% below the $721.40 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 43 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 14.0 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
HCA dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $1.56 | 2 |
| 2025 | $2.88 | 4 |
| 2024 | $2.64 | 4 |
| 2023 | $2.40 | 4 |
| 2022 | $2.24 | 4 |
| 2021 | $1.92 | 4 |
| 2020 | $0.770 | 3 |
| 2019 | $1.60 | 4 |
| 2018 | $1.40 | 4 |
| 2012 | $6.50 | 3 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
HCA earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 25 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About HCA Healthcare
HCA Healthcare, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides health care services in the United States. The company owns, manages, and operates hospitals, ASCs, freestanding emergency care facilities, urgent care facilities, walk-in clinics, diagnostic and imaging centers, radiation and oncology therapy centers, as well as rehabilitation and physical therapy centers, physician practices, home health agencies, hospices, outpatient physical therapy providers, home and community-based services providers, and various other facilities. Its general and acute care hospitals offer medical and surgical services, including inpatient care, intensive care, cardiac care, diagnostic services, and emergency services; and outpatient services, such as outpatient surgery, laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology, and physical therapy. The company was formerly known as HCA Holdings, Inc. HCA Healthcare, Inc. was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
HCA passes 2 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
20 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Lewis Sanders, Sanders Capital, LLC$4.24B · 5.0% of book
- First Eagle, First Eagle Investment Management, LLC$1.28B · 2.1% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$1.02B · 0.6% of book
- Lyrical Asset Management, LYRICAL ASSET MANAGEMENT LP$316.43M · 4.8% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$87.62M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Common questions
Is HCA Healthcare (HCA) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $721.40, HCA at $414.59 is 74% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own HCA?
20 of the institutions we track reported a position in HCA in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is HCA's P/E ratio?
HCA trades at 14.0 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does HCA Healthcare (HCA) pay a dividend?
Yes. HCA Healthcare yields 0.76% at the current share price. It has paid $3.00 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 8 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its HCA data?
Fundamentals for HCA come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYSE; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 13 Aug 2026, 06:03 UTC and is delayed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.