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What HCA's price assumes
HCA Healthcare trades at 14.7× earnings against 19.7× for the median Medical Care Facilities name, cheaper than its own group.
14.7
Trailing P/E · Medical Care Facilities median 19.7 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 1.40
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 9.5%
Free cash flow yield · Medical Care Facilities median 7.8%
- Growth the price implies
- −3.0%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −3.0% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +23% a year over the last three.
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- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 1.97
- Healthcare median P/E362 names
- 31.5
- Medical Care Facilities median P/E29 names
- 19.7
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $7.93B
- Market capitalisation
- $83.2B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +7.9%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +23%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $331.15 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $358.35 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $388.68 |
| 52-week range | $360.60 – $543.23 |
| Today | $427.03 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Medical Care Facilities
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