How much does $10,000 in HCA pay in dividends?

At HCA's current yield of 0.70%, $10,000 pays about $69.84 a year — roughly $17.46 per payment, paid quarterly, or $5.82 a month averaged out.

What would HCA be worth after 10 years with dividends reinvested?

Reinvesting every dividend and assuming the payment and share price both stay flat, $10,000 in HCA would grow to about $10,723 after 10 years, against $10,698 if the income were taken as cash. That deliberately assumes no dividend growth — a real holding may do better or considerably worse.

How often does HCA pay dividends?

HCA pays quarterly — 4 payments a year — based on its actual payment history rather than an assumed schedule.

Is HCA's dividend guaranteed?

No. Dividends are discretionary and can be reduced or suspended at any time, and every figure here is a projection from the current yield rather than a forecast. Check HCA's full payment history before relying on any of it.

HCA Dividend Calculator

HCA Healthcare, Inc. yields 0.70%, below the 2.92% median across US dividend payers. The income from HCA is a smaller part of the story than it would be on a high-yield holding, and the figures below deliberately capture only that part.

HCA paid $3.06 per share over the last twelve months on a quarterly schedule. Enter any amount below, or use the worked figures.

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Dividend income

$10,000 in HCA pays you

$69.84

per year

Paid each quarter: $17.46
Monthly average: $5.82
Shares bought: 22.82
Payments a year: 4

Total over 10 years, taken as cash

$698.44

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Based on the trailing twelve-month dividend, assuming it stays flat. Payments are not guaranteed and can be cut or suspended at any time. Figures are before tax and exclude any change in the share price.

HCA dividend income by investment amount

Based on the current yield of 0.70%. Figures are before tax and assume the dividend stays at its present level.

Dividend income from HCA at a range of investment amounts.
Invested	Per year	Per payment	Monthly average
$1,000	$6.98	$1.75	$0.58
$5,000	$34.92	$8.73	$2.91
$10,000	$69.84	$17.46	$5.82
$25,000	$174.61	$43.65	$14.55
$50,000	$349.22	$87.30	$29.10
$100,000	$698.44	$174.61	$58.20

HCA with dividends reinvested

$10,000 in HCA, every dividend reinvested, holding the payment and share price flat. Deliberately conservative — most calculators assume years of uninterrupted growth, and that assumption drives most of the result.

After 10 years: $10,723
After 20 years: $11,498
After 30 years: $12,329

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What makes up HCA's 0.70% yield

HCA paid $3.06 per share over the last twelve months against a share price of $438.12, which is where the 0.70% comes from. Special and one-off distributions are excluded from that figure — they do not recur, and including them would overstate every projection below.

A below-median yield is not the same as a weak dividend. It commonly means earnings are being retained and reinvested, or that the share price has risen faster than the payment — in the second case the holder's income did not fall, the yield did. Income is one component of the return on HCA and the smaller one; the figures below are not a total-return estimate.

Healthcare dividends compete for the same cash as research spending, which is why yields in the sector are typically modest even at large companies. The sector-specific risk to the payment is patent expiry: revenue concentrated in one or two products can step down sharply rather than decline gradually.

When HCA pays, and what that changes

HCA pays quarterly, the standard schedule for US-listed payers, so the "per payment" column is one quarter of the annual figure and the "monthly average" column is a smoothed figure rather than a description of when cash arrives — nothing is paid in eight months of the year.

Each payment has an ex-dividend date, and it is the date that governs entitlement: shares bought on or after it do not carry that payment. HCA's full schedule and payment history are on its dividend page.

Is HCA's dividend covered by earnings?

HCA's payout ratio of 0.10 means roughly 10% of earnings go to the dividend, leaving the rest retained. A margin that size is what allows a payment to be maintained through a weaker year without being funded from borrowing.

Demand in this kind of business holds up across a cycle, so the earnings behind the ratio move less than the market's average and the figure is reasonably representative rather than a snapshot of a good year.

The figures hold the dividend flat. HCA has raised its payment in each of the last 5 years, which is a shorter record than the multi-decade streaks found among the longest-standing payers, and not yet long enough to have been tested across a full cycle.

HCA dividend calculator FAQ

How much does $10,000 in HCA pay in dividends?: At HCA's current yield of 0.70%, $10,000 pays about $69.84 a year — roughly $17.46 per payment, paid quarterly, or $5.82 a month averaged out.
What would HCA be worth after 10 years with dividends reinvested?: Reinvesting every dividend and assuming the payment and share price both stay flat, $10,000 in HCA would grow to about $10,723 after 10 years, against $10,698 if the income were taken as cash. That deliberately assumes no dividend growth — a real holding may do better or considerably worse.
How often does HCA pay dividends?: HCA pays quarterly — 4 payments a year — based on its actual payment history rather than an assumed schedule.
Is HCA's dividend guaranteed?: No. Dividends are discretionary and can be reduced or suspended at any time, and every figure here is a projection from the current yield rather than a forecast. Check HCA's full payment history before relying on any of it.

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HCA Healthcare, Inc. is a common stock trading at $438.12 per share, paying quarterly. — All figures before tax. Not financial advice.