Key Takeaways HCA Healthcare, Inc. (HCA) is making significant investments to expand its healthcare network, reinforcing capacity growth as a core component of its long-term strategy. Despite short-term pressure on patient volumes, it continues to add hospital beds, expand emergency room capacity and selectively acquire outpatient healthcare assets to meet future demand. In the first quarter of 2026, capital expenditures rose 12.9% year over year to $1.1 billion. During the quarter, it expanded its sites of ...

HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA) is one of the best medical care facilities stocks to buy according to analysts. The company ranks tenth on the list, with analysts seeing roughly 21.9% upside on average. The latest relevant development was clinical rather than purely financial: on June 29, HCA Healthcare announced new research published in The New England Journal of Medicine involving gene-editing therapy being studied in children ages 5 to 11 with severe sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent beta t ...