Earnings results often indicate what direction a company will take in the months ahead. With Q4 behind us, let’s have a look at HCA Healthcare (NYSE:HCA) and its peers.
As the Q4 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the hospital chains industry, including Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) and its peers.
From novel pharmaceuticals to telemedicine, most healthcare companies are on a mission to drive better patient outcomes. But speed bumps such as inventory destockings have persisted in the wake of COVID-19,
and over the past six months, the industry has pulled back by 11.2%. This drawdown was much worse than the S&P 500’s 1.1% decline.
Mid-cap stocks often strike the right balance between having proven business models and market opportunities that can support $100 billion corporations.
However, they face intense competition from scaled industry giants and can be disrupted by new innovative players vying for a slice of the pie.
Hospital operator Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) fell short of the market’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2024, with sales falling 5.7% year on year to $5.07 billion. The company’s full-year revenue guidance of $20.8 billion at the midpoint came in 2.4% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $3.44 per share was 21.5% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
On Tuesday January 28, 2025, a federal health payment system lockout, blamed on an "outage," sparked criticism amid Trump's spending freeze, though payments were reportedly unaffected, according to the white house.
White House freezes $3 trillion in federal funding, sparking legal and political showdown. Industries like education, healthcare, and clean energy at risk.
We introduce the ValuEngine Top Ten Stocks to Watch in 2025 list. We also provide a recap and performance analysis for the list published last January as Ten Stocks to Watch in 2024.
