HCA Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HCA)

HCA Holdings, Inc. provides health care services in the United States. The company owns, manages, or operates hospitals, freestanding surgery centers, diagnostic and imaging centers, radiation and oncology therapy centers, rehabilitation and physical therapy centers, and various other facilities. Its general acute care hospitals provide medical and surgical services, including inpatient care, intensive care, cardiac care, diagnostic services, and emergency services, as well as outpatient services comprising outpatient surgery, laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology, and physical therapy; and psychiatric hospitals offer therapeutic programs, such as child, adolescent, and adult psychiatric care, as well as adult and adolescent alcohol and drug abuse treatment and counseling. The company’s general, acute care hospitals provide a range of services to accommodate such medical specialties as internal medicine, general surgery, cardiology, oncology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, and obstetrics.

To review HCA’s stock, please take a look at the 1-year chart of HCA (HCA Holdings, Inc.) below with my added notations:

 

HCA has created a two important price levels to watch. First, HCA has formed a clear resistance at $34 (navy), which would also be a 52-week high breakout if the stock could manage to break above it. In addition, the stock has commonly found support at $30. Eventually, HCA will have to either break the $30 support or the $34, 52-week high resistance.