Compare Stocks: NVDA, ASH, CENTA, and HCA

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ASH Ashland	$74.47 -1.1%	$71.82	$48.00 ▼ $79.50	$3.41B	0.36	775,899 shs	150,860 shs
CENTA Central Garden & Pet	$40.55 +0.4%	$36.55	$27.41 ▼ $42.44	$2.54B	0.58	314,879 shs	35,292 shs
HCA HCA Healthcare	$497.09 -0.7%	$451.01	$353.99 ▼ $556.52	$103.78B	1.11	1.34 million shs	260,136 shs
NVDA NVIDIA	$160.62 -3.4%	$215.96	$148.80 ▼ $243.37	$3.87T	2.21	155.89 million shs	221.95 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ASH Ashland	-1.53%	-1.12%	+3.76%	+2.46%	+50.85%
CENTA Central Garden & Pet	-0.69%	-1.73%	+13.62%	+6.66%	+40.91%
HCA HCA Healthcare	-1.03%	-1.60%	+8.73%	+23.72%	+5.59%
NVDA NVIDIA	-4.34%	-8.49%	-27.28%	-26.19%	-14.25%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ASH Ashland	$74.47 -1.1%	$71.82	$48.00 ▼ $79.50	$3.41B	0.36	775,899 shs	150,860 shs
CENTA Central Garden & Pet	$40.55 +0.4%	$36.55	$27.41 ▼ $42.44	$2.54B	0.58	314,879 shs	35,292 shs
HCA HCA Healthcare	$497.09 -0.7%	$451.01	$353.99 ▼ $556.52	$103.78B	1.11	1.34 million shs	260,136 shs
NVDA NVIDIA	$160.62 -3.4%	$215.96	$148.80 ▼ $243.37	$3.87T	2.21	155.89 million shs	221.95 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ASH Ashland	-1.53%	-1.12%	+3.76%	+2.46%	+50.85%
CENTA Central Garden & Pet	-0.69%	-1.73%	+13.62%	+6.66%	+40.91%
HCA HCA Healthcare	-1.03%	-1.60%	+8.73%	+23.72%	+5.59%
NVDA NVIDIA	-4.34%	-8.49%	-27.28%	-26.19%	-14.25%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
ASH Ashland	2.64	Moderate Buy	$75.30	1.12% Upside
CENTA Central Garden & Pet	2.67	Moderate Buy	$46.67	15.10% Upside
HCA HCA Healthcare	2.63	Moderate Buy	$480.13	-3.41% Downside
NVDA NVIDIA	2.86	Moderate Buy	$278.54	73.41% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest NVDA, ASH, CENTA, and HCA Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
11/13/2026	NVDA NVIDIA	HSBC Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Downgrade	Buy ➝ Hold	$170.00
11/13/2026	NVDA NVIDIA	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Overweight	$275.00 ➝ $210.00
11/12/2026	NVDA NVIDIA	Wedbush Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Set Price Target	Outperform	$345.00
11/12/2026	NVDA NVIDIA	Royal Bank Of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Set Price Target		$225.00
11/12/2026	NVDA NVIDIA	Oppenheimer Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Downgrade	Outperform ➝ Market Perform
11/12/2026	NVDA NVIDIA	New Street Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Buy
11/12/2026	NVDA NVIDIA	Stifel Nicolaus Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Set Price Target	Buy	$315.00 ➝ $205.00
11/12/2026	NVDA NVIDIA	Sanford C. Bernstein Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Set Price Target	Outperform ➝ Market Perform	$400.00 ➝ $200.00
11/12/2026	NVDA NVIDIA	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Downgrade	Buy ➝ Hold	$346.00 ➝ $174.00
11/12/2026	NVDA NVIDIA	DA Davidson Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Buy	$300.00 ➝ $200.00
11/10/2026	HCA HCA Healthcare	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Buy (B-) ➝ Buy (B)

(Data available from 11/13/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
ASH Ashland	$1.86B	1.83	$7.31 per share	10.18	$40.34 per share	1.85
CENTA Central Garden & Pet	$3.13B	0.81	$4.17 per share	9.72	$25.21 per share	1.61
HCA HCA Healthcare	$75.60B	1.37	$44.42 per share	11.19	($22.02) per share	-22.57
NVDA NVIDIA	$215.94B	17.93	$4.37 per share	36.78	$6.47 per share	24.83

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
ASH Ashland	$4M	$0.08	930.81	15.91	2.00	0.21%	8.17%	3.36%	2/1/2027 (Estimated)
CENTA Central Garden & Pet	$162.84M	$2.68	15.15	13.43	N/A	5.39%	11.13%	4.93%	11/23/2026 (Estimated)
HCA HCA Healthcare	$6.78B	$30.18	16.46	15.77	1.69	8.61%	-198.52%	10.81%	1/26/2027 (Estimated)
NVDA NVIDIA	$120.07B	$7.91	20.31	10.20	1.34	63.66%	96.04%	71.00%	11/17/2026 (Estimated)

Latest NVDA, ASH, CENTA, and HCA Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
11/23/2026	N/A	CENTA Central Garden & Pet	-$0.06	N/A	N/A	N/A	$599.52 million	N/A
11/17/2026	Q3 2027	NVDA NVIDIA	$2.47	N/A	N/A	N/A	$108.84 billion	N/A
11/3/2026	Q4 2026	ASH Ashland	$1.27	$1.12	-$0.15	-$0.35	$501.76 million	$996.00 million
10/27/2026	Q3 2026	HCA HCA Healthcare	$6.65	$7.22	+$0.57	$7.27	$19.33 billion	$19.85 billion
8/26/2026	Q2 2027	NVDA NVIDIA	$2.09	$2.22	+$0.13	$2.46	$92.27 billion	$96.22 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
ASH Ashland	$1.68	2.26%	+7.75%	2,100.00%	16 Years
CENTA Central Garden & Pet	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
HCA HCA Healthcare	$3.12	0.63%	+30.19%	10.34%	6 Years
NVDA NVIDIA	$1.00	0.62%	+14.87%	12.64%	1 Years

Latest NVDA, ASH, CENTA, and HCA Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
10/26/2026	HCA HCA Healthcare	quarterly	$0.78	0.69%	12/15/2026	12/15/2026	12/29/2026
11/11/2026	ASH Ashland	quarterly	$0.42	2.19%	12/1/2026	12/1/2026	12/15/2026
8/26/2026	NVDA NVIDIA	quarterly	$0.25	0.46%	9/10/2026	9/10/2026	10/1/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
ASH Ashland	0.74	2.96	1.89
CENTA Central Garden & Pet	0.68	3.79	2.67
HCA HCA Healthcare	N/A	0.82	0.74
NVDA NVIDIA	0.14	4.59	3.85

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
ASH Ashland	93.95%
CENTA Central Garden & Pet	50.82%
HCA HCA Healthcare	62.73%
NVDA NVIDIA	65.27%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
ASH Ashland	1.26%
CENTA Central Garden & Pet	20.28%
HCA HCA Healthcare	1.50%
NVDA NVIDIA	3.94%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
ASH Ashland	2,900	45.81 million	45.23 million	Optionable
CENTA Central Garden & Pet	6,000	62.59 million	49.90 million	Optionable
HCA HCA Healthcare	320,000	208.89 million	205.76 million	Optionable
NVDA NVIDIA	42,000	24.10 billion	23.15 billion	Optionable

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NVDA, ASH, CENTA, and HCA Company Descriptions

Ashland NYSE:ASH

$74.47 -0.80 (-1.07%)

As of 12:22 PM Eastern

Ashland Inc. provides additives and specialty ingredients in the North and Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and internationally. It operates through Life Sciences, Personal Care, Specialty Additives, and Intermediates segments. The Life Sciences segment offers pharmaceutical solutions, including controlled release polymers, disintegrants, tablet coatings, thickeners, solubilizers, and tablet binders; nutrition solutions, such as thickeners, stabilizers, emulsifiers, and additives; and nutraceutical solutions comprising products for weight management, joint comfort, stomach and intestinal health, sports nutrition, and general wellness, as well as custom formulation, toll processing, and particle engineering solutions. Its Personal Care segment provides a range of nature-based, biodegradable, and performance ingredients; solutions for toothpastes, mouth washes and rinses, denture cleaning, and care for teeth; and household supplies nature-derived rheology ingredients, biodegradable surface wetting agents, performance encapsulates, and specialty polymers. The Specialty Additives segment offers rheology modifiers, foam control agents, surfactants and wetting agents, pH neutralizers, advanced ceramics used in catalytic converters, environmental filters, ingredients for the manufacturing of ceramic capacitors, plasma display panels and solar cells, ingredients for textile printing, thermoplastic metals, and alloys for welding. Its Intermediates segment produces 1,4 butanediol and related derivatives, including n-methylpyrrolidone. It offers its products to customers in a range of consumer and industrial markets, such as architectural coatings, construction, energy, food and beverage, nutraceuticals, personal care, and pharmaceutical. The company was formerly known as Ashland Global Holdings Inc. and changed its name to Ashland Inc. in August 2022. Ashland Inc. was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

Central Garden & Pet NASDAQ:CENTA

$40.54 +0.18 (+0.43%)

As of 12:22 PM Eastern

Central Garden & Pet Co. engages in the production and distribution of branded and private label products for the lawn, garden, and pet supplies markets. It operates through the Pet and Garden segments. The Pet segment focuses on dog and cat supplies such as dog treats and chews, toys, pet beds and containment, grooming products, waste management and training pads, supplies for aquatics, small animals, reptiles and pet birds including toys, cages and habitats, bedding, food and supplements, products for equine and livestock, animal and household health and insect control products, live fish, and small animals, as well as outdoor cushions. The Garden segment includes lawn and garden consumables such as grass, vegetable, flower and herb seed, wild bird feed, bird houses and other birding accessories, weed, grass, and other herbicides, insecticide and pesticide products, fertilizers, and live plants. The company was founded by William E. Brown in 1980 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA.

HCA Healthcare NYSE:HCA

$497.09 -3.57 (-0.71%)

As of 12:22 PM Eastern

HCA Healthcare, Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates hospitals and related healthcare entities in the United States. It operates general and acute care hospitals that offers medical and surgical services, including inpatient care, intensive care, cardiac care, diagnostic, and emergency services; and outpatient services, such as outpatient surgery, laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology, and physical therapy. The company also operates outpatient health care facilities consisting of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers, freestanding emergency care facilities, urgent care facilities, walk-in clinics, diagnostic and imaging centers, rehabilitation and physical therapy centers, radiation and oncology therapy centers, physician practices, and various other facilities. In addition, it operates behavioral hospitals, which provide therapeutic programs comprising child, adolescent and adult psychiatric care, adolescent and adult alcohol, drug abuse treatment, and counseling services. The company was formerly known as HCA Holdings, Inc. HCA Healthcare, Inc. was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

NVIDIA NASDAQ:NVDA

$160.62 -5.57 (-3.35%)

As of 12:22 PM Eastern

NVIDIA Corporation provides graphics and compute and networking solutions in the United States, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and internationally. The Graphics segment offers GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, and solutions for gaming platforms; Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs for enterprise workstation graphics; virtual GPU or vGPU software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Omniverse software for building and operating metaverse and 3D internet applications. The Compute & Networking segment comprises Data Center computing platforms and end-to-end networking platforms, including Quantum for InfiniBand and Spectrum for Ethernet; NVIDIA DRIVE automated-driving platform and automotive development agreements; Jetson robotics and other embedded platforms; NVIDIA AI Enterprise and other software; and DGX Cloud software and services. The company's products are used in gaming, professional visualization, data center, and automotive markets. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, original device manufacturers, system integrators and distributors, independent software vendors, cloud service providers, consumer internet companies, add-in board manufacturers, distributors, automotive manufacturers and tier-1 automotive suppliers, and other ecosystem participants. NVIDIA Corporation was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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