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

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Company snapshot — HCA Healthcare, Inc.

HCA in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook 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 Closelook 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 Closelook 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 Closelook’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.

Signals for this name

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

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 Closelook 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 Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.72%, 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 0.72% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • 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.

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 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is HCA Healthcare, Inc. (HCA)?

HCA Healthcare, Inc. trades as HCA on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is HCA in a Closelook index?

Not currently — HCA Healthcare, Inc. is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does HCA trade against its moving averages?

Recovery attempt under the 200-day: Trades +5.3% vs the 50-day and -4.6% vs the 200-day average, 23% below the 52-week high and +20.8% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

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.

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 Closelook score yet, and the diary has not quoted it in an edition so far.

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 0.72% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.78 USD on 2026-09-16. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for HCA, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Medical Care Facilities, then Healthcare. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.