HCA Healthcare, Inc. (HCA) earnings on April 24, 2026
More HCA Healthcare, Inc. earnings
Prior outlook: No statistical edge
HCA's stock saw a solid gain after its earnings, closing up 3.08%. This positive movement happened even though there were signs of slowing momentum beforehand.
HCA price around the earnings
445.77
Change: +3.1%
2026-04-27, 20:00 UTC
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- Start of the measured window
- End of the measured window
- Market open
- No trading (market closed)
- Starting price
Prior thesis
Prior outlook: No statistical edge
- Thesis published
Positive outlook tempered by weakening price trend.
Analysts have set price targets significantly higher than the current stock price, and the company has a history of meeting or exceeding expectations. However, recent price movements suggest a weakening trend, which is a point of caution.
Context analyzed before publication
- Summary
- Strong analyst upside and a strong recent record of beating earnings, but severe negative momentum divergence.
- Reasoning
- Strong analyst upside and a strong recent record of beating earnings, but severe negative momentum divergence.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 1.96
- Analysts covering the stock
- 21
- Average price target
- 542.67
- Lowest price target
- 425
- Highest price target
- 635
- Upside to price target
- 15.1%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 30.6%
- Revenue growth
- 6.7%
- Forward EPS
- 33.33
- Trailing EPS
- 28.33
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 3
- Strong buy: 2
- Buy: 13
- Hold: 9
- Sell: 1
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 2
- Buy
- 13
- Hold
- 9
- Sell
- 1
- Strong sell
- 0
- March 10, 2026 · TD Cowen: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- February 25, 2026 · Mizuho: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
- February 23, 2026 · UBS: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
There is no news coverage available for this event.
Technicals
Evidence
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.5%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -15.3%
- 14-day change (14d)
- -0.1%
- 30-day change
- -12.3%
- 30-day relative strength
- -17.3%
- Benchmark change
- +5.0%
- Nearest support
- 459.74
- Nearest resistance
- 556.01
- Volume accumulation ratio
- 0.77
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +12.9%
- January 27, 2026: actual EPS 8.14 vs estimate 7.42 (surprise +9.7%)
- October 24, 2025: actual EPS 6.96 vs estimate 5.73 (surprise +21.6%)
- July 25, 2025: actual EPS 6.84 vs estimate 6.32 (surprise +8.2%)
- April 25, 2025: actual EPS 6.45 vs estimate 5.75 (surprise +12.1%)
Expected move
There is no implied-move data available for this event.
Reactions over its last 18 earnings
- Median move
- 4.2%
- 75th percentile move
- 5.6%
- 90th percentile move
- 9.6%
- Up / down moves
- 7 / 11
- Average up move
- +4.8%
- Average down move
- -5.7%
Monitoring and close
What HCA Healthcare, Inc. reported
There is no monitoring data available for this event.
Pre-market second reading after the results
There is no second reading available for this event.
How the stock reacted
- Consolidated
- +3.1%
- Max move
- +3.4%
No verdict: the outlook took no direction, so there is nothing to score as a hit or a miss.