shares of hca healthcare inc hca shed 145 to 19884 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 171 to 378993 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 170 to 3018378 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses hca healthcare inc closed 8018 short of its 52week high 27902 which the company reached on april 21st despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as universal health services inc cl b uhs fell 156 to 9464 tenet healthcare corp thc fell 193 to 5575 and community health systems inc cyh fell 320 to 272true trading volume 897929 remained 541634 below its 50day average volume of 14 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