As of today (2024-04-25), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of HCA Healthcare is 0.76%.
Warning Sign:
HCA Healthcare Inc stock dividend yield is close to 2-year low.
The historical rank and industry rank for HCA Healthcare's Dividend Yield % or its related term are showing as below:
STU:2BH'
s Dividend Yield % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.22 Med: 0.86 Max: 2.04
Current: 0.76
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Yield of HCA Healthcare was 2.04%. The lowest was 0.22%. And the median was 0.86%.
STU:2BH's Dividend Yield % is ranked worse than 80.77% of 260
companies
in the Healthcare Providers & Services industry
Industry Median: 1.93
vs STU:2BH: 0.76
During the past 12 months, HCA Healthcare's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 7.10% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 77.40% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 16.00% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of HCA Healthcare was 77.40% per year. The lowest was 11.10% per year. And the median was 11.90% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.
HCA Healthcare Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for HCA Healthcare's Dividend Yield % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of HCA Healthcare's Dividend Yield %
For the Medical Care Facilities subindustry, HCA Healthcare's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
HCA Healthcare's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry
For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, HCA Healthcare's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where HCA Healthcare's Dividend Yield % falls into.
HCA Healthcare Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
HCA Healthcare Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 0.660
2024-03-14
2024-03-15
2024-03-29
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.920000
USD 0.600
2023-12-13
2023-12-14
2023-12-28
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.917000
USD 0.600
2023-09-14
2023-09-15
2023-09-29
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.937000
USD 0.600
2023-06-15
2023-06-16
2023-06-30
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.923000
* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.
HCA Healthcare's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
2.2734
/
297.80
=
0.76 %
Current Share Price is €297.80. HCA Healthcare's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is €2.2734.
HCA Healthcare's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
2.4288
/
297.80
=
0.82 %
Current Share Price is €297.80. HCA Healthcare's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as €0.6072 * 4 = €2.4288.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.
Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.
In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.
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HCA Healthcare is a Nashville-based healthcare provider organization operating the largest collection of acute-care hospitals in the United States. As of December 2022, the firm owned and operated 182 hospitals, 126 freestanding outpatient surgery centers, and a broad network of physician offices, urgent-care clinics, and freestanding emergency rooms across 20 states and a small foothold in England.
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