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Shares of HCA Healthcare Inc. /zigman2/quotes/205934574/composite HCA +0.81% shed 0.50% to $258.97 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index /zigman2/quotes/210599714/realtime SPX +0.01% falling 1.94% to 4,700.58 and Dow Jones Industrial Average /zigman2/quotes/210598065/realtime DJIA +0.03% falling 1.07% to 36,407.11. HCA Healthcare Inc. closed $4.95 below its 52-week high ($263.92), which the company reached on September 17th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Wednesday, as Universal Health Services Inc. Cl B /zigman2/quotes/208539347/composite UHS +1.72% fell 0.01% to $133.80, Tenet Healthcare Corp. /zigman2/quotes/207964487/composite THC +1.03% fell 3.32% to $77.97, and Community Health Systems Inc. /zigman2/quotes/203657360/composite CYH +0.52% fell 5.05% to $12.98. Trading volume (1.4 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 1.3 M.
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