HCA Healthcare, Inc. HCA
What this company does
Written from the business description in HCA Healthcare, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 10 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Revenue compounded at +8.0% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +12.6%, earnings per share at +21.0%.
The share count fell from 0.34B to 0.22B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 75.6 | 70.6 | 65.0 | 60.2 | 58.8 | 51.5 | 51.3 | 46.7 | 43.6 | 41.5 | · | 36.9 | 34.2 | 33.0 | 29.7 | 28.0 | 26.8 |
| Operating income $B | 9.8 | 8.5 | 7.7 | 8.6 | 9.8 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 2.9 | · | · | · | · |
| EBITDA $B | 13.4 | 11.8 | 10.8 | 11.5 | 12.7 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 6.5 | 6.8 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 4.7 | · | · | · | · |
| Income tax $B | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| Net income $B | 6.8 | 5.8 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 7.0 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 2.2 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| Free cash flow $B | 7.7 | 5.6 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 5.4 | 6.4 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1.4 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 28.33 | 22.00 | 18.97 | 19.15 | 21.16 | 10.93 | 10.07 | 10.66 | 5.95 | 7.30 | 4.99 | 4.16 | 3.37 | 3.49 | 4.97 | 2.76 | 2.44 |
| Dividend / sh $ | 2.88 | 2.64 | 2.40 | 2.24 | 1.92 | 0.43 | 1.60 | 1.40 | · | · | · | · | · | 6.50 | · | 9.43 | · |
| Payout % | 10 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 0 | · | · | 0 | 1 | 196 | 1 | 353 | · |
| ROE % | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | 134.4 | 10.1 | · |
| Shares out B | 0.22 | 0.25 | 0.27 | 0.28 | 0.31 | 0.34 | 0.34 | 0.34 | 0.35 | 0.37 | 0.40 | 0.42 | 0.44 | 0.44 | 0.44 | 0.43 | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
This company against its peers
Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 10 checks could not be computed.