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Valued at a market cap of $102.4 billion, HCA Healthcare, Inc. (HCA) owns and operates hospitals and related healthcare entities. The Nashville, Tennessee-based company operates general and acute care hospitals, outpatient healthcare facilities, and behavioral hospitals, which provide therapeutic programs comprising child, adolescent, and adult psychiatric care, adolescent and adult alcohol and drug abuse treatment, and counseling services. It is scheduled to announce its fiscal Q3 earnings for 2025 before the market opens on Friday, Oct. 24.
Ahead of this event, analysts expect this healthcare company to report a profit of $5.64 per share, up 11.7% from $5.05 per share in the year-ago quarter. The company has a promising trajectory of consistently beating Wall Street’s bottom-line estimates in each of the last four quarters. In Q2, HCA’s EPS of $6.84 exceeded the forecasted figure by a notable margin of 10.5%.