HCA Jumps After Preliminary Earnings Top Analyst Estimates

... one-time items of $3 to $3.30 a share. "It's significantly better than expected," Sheryl Skolnick, an analyst at Stamford, Connecticut-based CRT Capital Group LLC, said in an interview. "Volume helped, but what really helped was cost control, the ...

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