shares of hca healthcare inc hca inched 038 higher to 27341 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 133 to 414622 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 114 to 3402969 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains hca healthcare inc closed 561 short of its 52week high 27902 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as community health systems inc cyh rose 019 to 529 and tenet healthcare corp thc rose 201 to 6408 trading volume 16 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 12 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