Hca Healthcare Stock Beta

2BH Stock  EUR 311.00  1.40  0.45%   
HCA Healthcare fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to HCA Healthcare's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of HCA Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure HCA Healthcare's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to HCA Healthcare stock.
  
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HCA Healthcare Company Beta Analysis

HCA Healthcare's Beta is one of the most important measures of equity market volatility. Beta can be thought of as asset elasticity or sensitivity to market. In other words, it is a number that shows the relationship of an equity instrument to the financial market in which this instrument is traded. For example, if Beta of equity is 2, it is expected to significantly outperform market when the market is going up and significantly underperform when the market is going down. Similarly, Beta of 1 indicates that an asset and market will generate similar returns over time.

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Current HCA Healthcare Beta

    
  0.55  
Most of HCA Healthcare's fundamental indicators, such as Beta, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, HCA Healthcare is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
In a nutshell, Beta is a measure of individual stock risk relative to the overall volatility of the stock market. and is calculated based on very sound finance theory - Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM).However, since Beta is calculated based on historical price movements it may not predict how a firm's stock is going to perform in the future.
Competition

In accordance with the recently published financial statements, HCA Healthcare has a Beta of 0.55. This is 36.05% lower than that of the Healthcare sector and 57.36% lower than that of the Medical Care industry. The beta for all Germany stocks is notably lower than that of the firm.

HCA Beta Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses HCA Healthcare's direct or indirect competition against its Beta to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of HCA Healthcare could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing HCA Healthcare by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
HCA Healthcare is currently under evaluation in beta category among its peers.
As returns on the market increase, HCA Healthcare's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding HCA Healthcare is expected to be smaller as well.

HCA Fundamentals

About HCA Healthcare Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze HCA Healthcare's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of HCA Healthcare using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of HCA Healthcare based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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Additional Tools for HCA Stock Analysis

When running HCA Healthcare's price analysis, check to measure HCA Healthcare's market volatility, profitability, liquidity, solvency, efficiency, growth potential, financial leverage, and other vital indicators. We have many different tools that can be utilized to determine how healthy HCA Healthcare is operating at the current time. Most of HCA Healthcare's value examination focuses on studying past and present price action to predict the probability of HCA Healthcare's future price movements. You can analyze the entity against its peers and the financial market as a whole to determine factors that move HCA Healthcare's price. Additionally, you may evaluate how the addition of HCA Healthcare to your portfolios can decrease your overall portfolio volatility.