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HCA Healthcare, Inc. (HCA) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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HCA Healthcare owns and runs hospitals and outpatient care sites across the United States, including surgery centres, emergency and urgent care clinics, imaging and cancer-treatment centres, and rehabilitation facilities. Its hospitals provide acute and specialist medical and surgical care, while its outpatient network handles diagnostics, therapy and other services delivered outside a hospital stay.

Detail below: the desk's view, the earnings record, peers and the company snapshot; daily prices on the price-history tab. Research diary readings, not advice.

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for HCA, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 1 piece · newest: Midday 10, “Midterms — Dow Jumps 2.3% and Apple Hits a Record; Data-Center Power Stocks Sink Up to 15%” (2026-11-04)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where HCA appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 47/100 · S&P 500 fund at 48, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-11-06
  • Factor regime Defensive rotation — low-vol leading, regime-change watchMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): below its 50-day trend, 60th percentile of the window, -22.8% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-11-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index -1.91 · down 2.45 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-11-06
How it trades on rate days beta 0.37 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How HCA has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.37 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), HCA Healthcare, Inc. moved 0.37% on average · correlation 0.11 · higher than 27% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.46 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.21% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −2.98% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Medical Care Facilities · United States · 7 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Medical Care Facilities · United States

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against HCA on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — HCA Healthcare, Inc.

HCA in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
HCA Healthcare owns and runs hospitals and outpatient care sites across the United States, including surgery centres, emergency and urgent care clinics, imaging and cancer-treatment centres, and rehabilitation facilities. Its hospitals provide acute and specialist medical and surgical care, while its outpatient network handles diagnostics, therapy and other services delivered outside a hospital stay. The company also runs physician practices, home health and hospice services that extend care beyond its main sites. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Where it sits in the stack
HCA Healthcare carries no seat in Rubin, our index of the AI build-out; it sits in the Healthcare sector, medical-care-facilities sleeve of the diary's wider coverage, and we stop there.
Who it is priced against
No peer group is set for this name in our coverage; the comparison the market often draws is with other hospital operators such as Universal Health Services.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
HCA Healthcare sits in the S&P 500 but has no Rubin seat, so it plays no part in the diary's AI build-out coverage. It carries no Closelooknet score yet, and the diary has not quoted it in an edition so far.
What the diary watches
The diary watches how hospital admissions and outpatient volumes shift as care moves further outside the traditional hospital setting.

HCA Healthcare, Inc. (HCA) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 2 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by RBC Capital, 2026-10-07

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for HCA from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target RBC Capital — target 496 from 435 Target raised to $496 from $435 (+13.1% to spot) 2026-10-07
  • Price target BMO Capital — target 495 Target set to $495 (+13% to spot) 2026-09-22

2 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 2 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.62%, quarterly · last 0.78 USD on 2026-09-16

Dividends and capital return

What HCA pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 3.06 USD per share · a 0.62% yield on the 2026-11-06 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-11-06
  • Change on the year +8.5% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.82 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.78 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-16
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.60 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.64 USD · 2025: 2.88 USD · 2026: 2.34 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-12-13

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-11-07

Quick answers

What is HCA Healthcare, Inc. (HCA)?

HCA Healthcare, Inc. trades as HCA on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-11-07.

Is HCA in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — HCA Healthcare, Inc. is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-11-07.

Where does HCA trade against its moving averages?

HCA Healthcare, Inc. trades 11.6% above its 50-day and 11.3% above its 200-day moving average (5.2% above its 20-day). As of 2026-11-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does HCA Healthcare, Inc. compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Medical Care Facilities · United States), HCA Healthcare, Inc. (HCA) sits 10.9% below its 52-week high, 11.6% above its 50-day average; agilon health Inc (AGL) is 14.8% below, Acadia Healthcare Company Inc (ACHC) is 6.0% below, Encompass Health Corp (EHC) is 4.1% below, as of 2026-11-06. Put any of them next to HCA in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does HCA Healthcare, Inc. trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year HCA Healthcare, Inc. had a beta of 0.37 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 27% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.21% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. As of 2026-11-06; The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about HCA Healthcare, Inc.?

HCA Healthcare, Inc. appears in 1 Closelooknet piece as of 2026-11-07, most recently Midday 10: Midterms — Dow Jumps 2.3% and Apple Hits a Record; Data-Center Power Stocks Sink Up to 15% (2026-11-04). What Closelooknet said most recently: Hospital operators jump, HCA Healthcare 9.2% to 505.25 and Universal Health Services 8.0%, although Morgan Stanley expects no healthcare policy change before the next presidential race (Reuters). (Midday 10, 2026-11-04). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does HCA Healthcare, Inc. do?

HCA Healthcare owns and runs hospitals and outpatient care sites across the United States, including surgery centres, emergency and urgent care clinics, imaging and cancer-treatment centres, and rehabilitation facilities. Its hospitals provide acute and specialist medical and surgical care, while its outpatient network handles diagnostics, therapy and other services delivered outside a hospital stay. The company also runs physician practices, home health and hospice services that extend care beyond its main sites. No peer group is set for this name in our coverage; the comparison the market often draws is with other hospital operators such as Universal Health Services. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Where does HCA Healthcare, Inc. sit in the AI build-out?

HCA Healthcare carries no seat in Rubin, our index of the AI build-out; it sits in the Healthcare sector, medical-care-facilities sleeve of the diary's wider coverage, and we stop there. HCA Healthcare sits in the S&P 500 but has no Rubin seat, so it plays no part in the diary's AI build-out coverage. It carries no Closelooknet score yet, and the diary has not quoted it in an edition so far. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Does HCA Healthcare, Inc. pay a dividend?

HCA Healthcare, Inc. has paid 3.06 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.62% on the 2026-11-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.78 USD on 2026-09-16. As of 2026-11-06; the "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on HCA Healthcare, Inc. recently?

The most recent analyst action on HCA Healthcare, Inc. on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by RBC Capital on 2026-10-07 (target 496 from 435). 2 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 2 target changes. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

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