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HCA vs SSY

Side-by-side comparison of HCA Healthcare Inc. (HCA) and SunLink Health Systems Inc. (SSY): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both HCA and SSY operate in Hospital/Nursing Management (Health Care), so they compete in similar markets.
  • HCA is the larger of the two at $80.27B, about 8613.8x SSY ($9.3M).
  • Over the past year, HCA is down 5.1% and SSY is up 34.0% - SSY leads by 39.0 points.
  • HCA has hit the wire 2 times in the past 4 weeks while SSY has been quiet.
  • HCA has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 0 for SSY).
PerformanceHCA-24.65%SSY+33.96%
2026-03-26+0.00%2026-06-04
MetricHCASSY
Company
HCA Healthcare Inc.
SunLink Health Systems Inc.
Price
$361.82-0.43%
$1.14+17.89%
Market cap
$80.27B
$9.3M
1M return
-15.63%
+11.22%
1Y return
-5.09%
+33.96%
Industry
Hospital/Nursing Management
Hospital/Nursing Management
Exchange
NYSE
AMEX
IPO
2011
News (4w)
2
0
Recent ratings
25
0
HCA

HCA Healthcare Inc.

HCA Healthcare, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a health care services company in the United States. The company operates general, acute care hospitals that offer medical and surgical services, including inpatient care, intensive care, cardiac care, diagnostic, and emergency services; and outpatient services, such as outpatient surgery, laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology, and physical therapy. It also operates psychiatric hospitals, which provide therapeutic programs comprising child, adolescent and adult psychiatric care, and adolescent and adult alcohol and drug abuse treatment and counseling. In addition, the company operates outpatient health care facilities consisting of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers, freestanding emergency care facilities, urgent care facilities, walk-in clinics, diagnostic and imaging centers, rehabilitation and physical therapy centers, radiation and oncology therapy centers, physician practices, and various other facilities. As of December 31, 2020, it operated 185 hospitals, which included 178 general, acute care hospitals, as well as five psychiatric hospitals and two rehabilitation hospitals; 121 freestanding surgery centers; and 21 freestanding endoscopy centers in 20 states and England. The company was formerly known as HCA Holdings, Inc. HCA Healthcare, Inc. was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

SSY

SunLink Health Systems Inc.

SunLink Health Systems, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides healthcare products and services in the southeastern United States. It operates through two segments, Healthcare Services and Pharmacy. The Healthcare Services segment owns and operates an 84-bed community hospital, which includes an 18-bed geriatric psychiatry unit and a 66-bed nursing home in Mississippi; as well as offers information technology services. This segment also owns unimproved lands. The Pharmacy segment offers institutional and non-institutional pharmacy services; and durable medical equipment products and services, which consist of the sale and rental of products for institutional clients or to patients in institutional settings and patient-administered home care, as well as retail pharmacy products and services. SunLink Health Systems, Inc. was founded in 1959 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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