HCAHCA Healthcare
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: modest expectations priced in and cheap vs its sector, but at the top of its own P/E range.
Priced for a decline (~−3% a year). The price demands less than its three-year revenue growth of 8% a year, expectations look modest.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 15.5 vs a 12.2 median over 40 quarters (+27% vs median).
Sector median 22.6× across 130 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Unless marked, from derived, as of Mar 31, 2026.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What HCA's price assumes
HCA Healthcare trades at 15.5× earnings against 20.0× for the median Medical Care Facilities name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Medical Care Facilities median 20.0 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 1.09
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 9.5%
Free cash flow yield · Medical Care Facilities median 7.1%
- 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.
Details›
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- 13.3
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- 1.71
- Healthcare median P/E509 names
- 26.2
- Medical Care Facilities median P/E33 names
- 20.0
- 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 | $329.23 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $355.73 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $418.11 |
| 52-week range | $360.60 – $543.23 |
| Today | $450.93 |
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
The closest names by size in the same industry