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HCA Healthcare (HCA) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

HCA Healthcare (HCA) has disclosed Return on Capital Employed for 14 consecutive years, with 0.03% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed rose 13.0% to 0.03% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.03%, a 13.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.05%, up 1.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed was 0.03% for Q4 2025 at HCA Healthcare, up from 0.22% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 0.0% in Q4 2021 to a low of 0.22% in Q3 2025.
  • A 5-year average of 0.1% and a median of 0.1% in 2023 define the central range for Return on Capital Employed.
  • Biggest YoY gain for Return on Capital Employed was 13bps in 2025; the steepest drop was -14bps in 2025.
  • HCA Healthcare's Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.0% in 2021, then plummeted by -6227bps to 0.09% in 2022, then dropped by -29bps to 0.12% in 2023, then plummeted by -35bps to 0.16% in 2024, then soared by 79bps to 0.03% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for HCA's Return on Capital Employed are 0.03% (Q4 2025), 0.22% (Q3 2025), and 0.15% (Q2 2025).