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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-249345"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HCA"
cik: "0000860730"
company_name: "HCA Healthcare, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:24:04.286338+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HCA Healthcare Q3 EPS $6.96, revenue $19.2B, raises 2025 guidance

## Summary
- Diluted EPS $6.96 (up 42.6% YoY); net income $1.643B (up 29.4%).
- Revenue $19.161B (+9.6% YoY); Adjusted EBITDA $3.870B (+18.5%).
- Same facility admissions +2.1%, same facility equivalent admissions +2.4%.
- Quarterly dividend declared: $0.72/share, payable Dec 29 to holders of record Dec 15.
- Full-year 2025 guidance raised (specific figures not released).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-249345
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HCA
- cik: 0000860730
- company_name: HCA Healthcare, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860730/000119312525249345/0001193125-25-249345-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860730/000119312525249345/hca-20251024.htm

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