HCA Healthcare is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries and partnerships and joint ventures, Co. owns and operates hospitals and related health care entities. Co.'s general, acute care hospitals provide medical and surgical services, including inpatient care, intensive care, cardiac care, diagnostic services and emergency services. The general, acute care hospitals also provide outpatient services such as outpatient surgery, laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology and physical therapy. Co.'s psychiatric hospitals provide therapeutic programs, including child, adolescent and adult psychiatric care and adolescent and adult alcohol and drug abuse treatment and counseling. We show 50 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our HCA shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute HCA market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing HCA market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing HCA's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of HCA versus a peer is one thing; comparing
HCA market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like HCA can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching HCA by allowing them to research the HCA market cap history. |
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