Compare price, profitability, solvency, and SEC-reported financials side by side—before deciding which assumptions deserve a closer look.
Decision snapshot: HCA stock price vs PDCO: inconclusive Relative valuation is incomplete for this pair. Review the available filing metrics before drawing a conclusion.
Quick read
Each company valued on the other's multiple, then compared with the market price.
Implied fair value · at PDCO's multiple
Needs PDCO P/E.
Implied fair value · at HCA's multiple
Needs HCA P/E.
Price unavailable
Metric by metric
Where each company leads, and how wide the gap is.
Growth edge
Reported gross margin
Operating income + D&A
Lower is better
Not comparable
Lower leverage
Statements
Annual statements in reported currencies, with calculations and source evidence.
Values retain reported currencies and share bases. Select a figure to inspect its period, calculation and filing inputs. Differences require compatible units and periods.
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Trendline
Nine period-end years of reported revenue, earnings, and margins. Periods and currencies are shown with the data.
Price framework
USD market cap plus reported borrowing debt, less cash and equivalents. This EV proxy excludes investments, preferred stock and noncontrolling-interest adjustments.
Complete market value, debt and cash evidence is required for enterprise value.
Complete market value, debt and cash evidence is required for enterprise value.
Price framework
The same filing-backed model used on each company's valuation page, with company-specific inputs and calculated scenarios.
HCA Healthcare, Inc. · implied price per share
Bear
$130.81
Base
$187.37
Bull
$261.03
PATTERSON COMPANIES, INC. · implied price per share
Latest annual free cash flow must be positive to qualify the filing-backed baseline.
Balance sheet health
Inspect reported liquidity and leverage alongside historical financial-health checks.
Financial strength on a 0–9 scale.
Bankruptcy-risk signal from balance sheet and earnings power.
Not enough data to score either balance sheet.
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
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Cash excludes investments. EBITDA is an operating-income-plus-D&A proxy. Missing borrowing categories remain unavailable; select a value to inspect its inputs.
LLM-powered synthesis
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If you believe HCA can sustain 7.1% revenue growth and 22.3% EBITDA margins while remaining near its current leverage profile, then HCA looks attractive to own because its current price sits below the DCF range and its profitability clearly exceeds PDCO's.
HCA is trading at 13.1x P/E with an EV/EBITDA of 4.9x and EV/Revenue of 1.1x, while PDCO has no listed valuation multiples in the provided data. HCA also sits below the midpoint of its historical price band and well below the low end of its DCF range, suggesting the stock is not stretched on the supplied ranges.
Supporting Metrics
