Growth Metrics

HCA Healthcare (HCA) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

HCA Healthcare (HCA) has disclosed Return on Sales for 16 consecutive years, with 0.2% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Sales rose 51.0% to 0.2% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.05%, a 5.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.13%, up 3.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Sales was 0.2% for Q4 2025 at HCA Healthcare, up from 0.25% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.2% in Q4 2025 to a low of 0.31% in Q4 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 0.01% and a median of 0.09% in 2022 define the central range for Return on Sales.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: decreased -27bps in 2024, then soared 51bps in 2025.
  • HCA Healthcare's Return on Sales stood at 0.13% in 2021, then crashed by -166bps to 0.09% in 2022, then surged by 48bps to 0.05% in 2023, then plummeted by -585bps to 0.31% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 163bps to 0.2% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for HCA's Return on Sales are 0.2% (Q4 2025), 0.25% (Q3 2025), and 0.08% (Q2 2025).