shares of hca healthcare inc hca rallied 273 to 21179 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 199 to 405784 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 161 to 3263719 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains hca healthcare inc closed 6723 below its 52week high 27902 which the company reached on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as universal health services inc cl b uhs rose 094 to 12325 tenet healthcare corp thc rose 445 to 6552 and community health systems inc cyh fell 074 to 535 trading volume 12 m remained 827207 below its 50day average volume of 20 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use