HCAT - Latest News
Health Catalyst, Inc. (HCAT), operates in Healthcare / Medical - Healthcare Information Services, trades on NASDAQ.
Market capitalization stands near $140.4M. Beta to the broader market is 1.66.
The article list below shows the most recent HCAT headlines from major financial news vendors. For options traders, the most actionable items are earnings releases, analyst rating changes, M&A activity, and regulatory filings - each can drive a meaningful repricing of implied volatility and shift dealer hedging flow. Pair the news context with the implied-volatility skew and gamma exposure views to see whether the options market has already priced in the headline.
Recent HCAT Headlines
Health Catalyst to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conference
globenewswire.com - Jun 16, 2026
SALT LAKE CITY, June 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Health Catalyst, Inc. ("Health Catalyst", Nasdaq: HCAT), a healthcare intelligence company designed
Med-Metrix Enters Into Definitive Agreement to Acquire Vitalware to Enhance Coding Accuracy and Net Revenue Yield
prnewswire.com - Jun 4, 2026
PARSIPPANY, N. J.
Health Catalyst to Divest Vitalware for $147 Million, Accelerating Strategic Transformation
globenewswire.com - Jun 4, 2026
Health Catalyst today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to divest Vitalware, its mid-revenue cycle business, to Med-Metrix for $147 milli
Health Catalyst, Inc. (HCAT) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
seekingalpha.com - May 12, 2026
Health Catalyst, Inc.
Health Catalyst Q1 Earnings Call Highlights
marketbeat.com - May 11, 2026
Health Catalyst NASDAQ: HCAT reported first-quarter 2026 results that topped its own expectations, while management outlined a broad restructuring pla
How News Affects HCAT Options Pricing
Headlines and scheduled events drive implied volatility in two distinct ways. Pre-event, IV typically inflates as uncertainty about the outcome rises; this is the implied-volatility expansion that creates the long-vol setup. Post-event, IV typically contracts sharply as uncertainty resolves; this is IV crush, which makes premium-selling structures profitable when they survive the underlying move. The size of the crush depends on how stretched pre-event IV is relative to the realized move. Track HCAT's implied vs realized volatility over the news cycle to size pre-event vs post-event positioning. For ticker-level dealer positioning context, the gamma exposure view shows whether dealers are positioned to amplify or dampen post-news moves.
Frequently asked HCAT news questions
- What is the latest HCAT news headline?
- The most recent HCAT headline (Jun 16, 2026) is "Health Catalyst to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conference". The five most recent stories with summaries and publication times are listed above, sourced from major financial news vendors.
- How fresh is the HCAT news on this page?
- News rows refresh roughly every 30 minutes during the trading day. The five most recent headlines are listed in publication-time order. Press releases from the company itself typically appear within minutes of the wire release; third-party reporting may lag by 30-60 minutes depending on the source.
- What HCAT news moves options pricing?
- Three categories move single-name IV most aggressively: scheduled earnings releases (priced into pre-event IV, crushed post-event), unscheduled M&A or strategic announcements (rapid IV expansion, slower decay), and regulatory or legal events (drug-trial readouts, antitrust filings, FDA approvals). Routine news flow (analyst commentary, sector rotation) typically does not move IV meaningfully unless it triggers a cluster of rating changes.
- How can I track unusual HCAT options activity related to news?
- Unusual options activity often precedes news by hours to days; the canonical signals are volume substantially above the trailing average concentrated in a small number of strikes, atypical put/call skew, and aggressive execution (at-the-ask sweeps or block prints). Cross-reference the per-ticker gamma-exposure and volume-history pages with the news flow above to triangulate informed vs uninformed flow.