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With a market cap of $85.5 billion, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, Inc. (HCA) is one of the largest non-governmental operators of acute care hospitals in the U.S. The company manages hospitals and related healthcare entities, offering a range of outpatient services such as surgery, laboratory tests, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology, and physical therapy. The company is slated to announce its fiscal Q2 earnings results on Tuesday, July 23.
Ahead of this event, analysts are expecting HCA to report a profit of $4.91 per share, up 14.5% from $4.29 per share in the year-ago quarter. The company has surpassed Wall Street's bottom-line estimates in three of the last four quarters while missing on one other occasion. The company's adjusted EPS for the last reported quarter jumped 8.7% year over year to $5.36, outpacing the consensus EPS estimate by nearly 7%.