HCA · CIK 0000860730 · FY2025 live · 2025-12-31
HCA Healthcare, Inc.
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Model
Z″
FY2025
−0.46
Zone
Distress
Prior
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Market DD
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1y PD
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−0.46
Classic Z 1.05
Z″ −0.46 · distress below 1.10, grey to 2.60, safe above.
Z″ factor contributions
X1 Working capital / assets
Short-term liquidity. Carries more weight in Z″ than in classic Z.
−0.016.56 × = −0.06X2 Retained earnings / assets
Cushion from years of profits. Share buybacks can push this negative at otherwise healthy firms.
−0.093.26 × = −0.31X3 EBIT / assets
Operating return on assets. Highest weight in Z″.
0.006.72 × = 0.00X4 Book equity / liabilities
Book equity versus the liability stack. Sales / assets is omitted so asset-light names are not punished for turnover.
−0.091.05 × = −0.09
Five-year path
Need two annual 10-Ks to draw a path. The desk will pull this issuer’s filings rather than invent a series.
Overview
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HCA Healthcare, Inc. is on Z″ at −0.46 (distress) for FY2025, from an SEC 10-K. Retained earnings / assets is the line that sets the print. This is the first live year on the desk. No market tape loaded. Z″ drops sales/assets so asset-light names are not punished for turnover. X4 is book equity on every name.
Book screen Distress; market PD —. Tape not priced — not a single default call.
Market DD · naive Merton
No market tape yet.
Pull a year of closes (Yahoo, Nasdaq if Yahoo is limited) and size equity from Nasdaq cap or EDGAR shares. Distance-to-default and 1-year PD stay blank until then.
Sector peers
Closest Z″ scores · 36th percentile in Healthcare.
- AVAHDistressAveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc.−0.46
- AIRSDistressAirsculpt Technologies, Inc.−0.63
- CDNADistressCareDx, Inc.−0.76
- WBADistressWalgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.−0.77
- MDXHDistressMDxHealth SA−0.08
- CAIDistressCaris Life Sciences, Inc.−0.93
- AMSDistressAMERICAN SHARED HOSPITAL SERVICES0.05
- INNVDistressInnovAge Holding Corp.0.07
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Current assets
$15.8B
Total assets
$60.7B
Current liabilities
$16.4B
Total liabilities
$66.7B
Working capital
−$567M
Retained earnings
−$5.7B
EBIT
$0
Total sales
$75.6B
Book equity
−$6.0B
Accession 0001193125-26-044769. Live rank is the latest 10-K on EDGAR (FY2025, period 2025-12-31). Z″ is the live score. View as does not rewrite the live rank. X4 is book equity. Pulled 12 Sept 2026.