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And speaking of private equity (see our previous post), there is more chatter today that the owners of HCA are getting ready for a sale of stock in the hospital chain that could be the biggest U.S. IPO in two years.<\/p>\nAnd speaking of private equity (see our previous post), there is more chatter today that the owners of HCA are getting ready for a sale of stock in the hospital chain that could be the biggest U.S. IPO in two years.<\/p>\n
HCA, the nation’s largest hospital operator by revenue, has been doing very well despite the economy and uncertainties connected with the health overhaul. With the operating environment looking to get stronger still, HCA’s owners are preparing to raise between $2.5 billion and $3 billion and maybe as much as $4 billion, Bloomberg News<\/a> reported today.<\/p>\n HCA was acquired in a leveraged buyout four years ago that was led by private-equity groups KKR and Bain Capital, both of which declined to comment on a possible IPO, as did HCA, Bloomberg said. Others involved in the buyout included the Frist family, who co-founded Hospital Corp. of America. Bloomberg said money raised in the IPO would reduce HCA’s debt, which stood at $25.7 billion at year end.<\/p>\n Of course, there has been repeated talk of an IPO at HCA, which the WSJ<\/a> ranks among “the most successful deals struck during the buyout boom from 2005-2007.” Helping fuel the talk these days is that the company is coming off strong financial results in 2009 and the outlook is cleared with the lifting of the overhaul-related worries.<\/p>\n Photo: Bloomberg News<\/em><\/p>\n .<\/p>\n And speaking of private equity (see our previous post), there is more chatter today that the owners of HCA are getting ready for a sale of stock in the hospital chain that could be the biggest U.S. IPO in two years. HCA, the nation’s largest hospital operator by revenue, has been doing very well despite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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