National HealthCare Corporation (NHC): Price and Financial Metrics

NHC POWR Grades

• NHC scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 99.72% of US stocks.
• NHC's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 51 weeks.
• NHC ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 24th percentile.

NHC Stock Summary

• National Healthcare Corp's stock had its IPO on January 20, 1987, making it an older stock than 91.92% of US equities in our set.
• In terms of twelve month growth in earnings before interest and taxes, National Healthcare Corp is reporting a growth rate of 315.38%; that's higher than 92.3% of US stocks.
• The volatility of National Healthcare Corp's share price is greater than that of only 5.48% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to National Healthcare Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be BMA, MRTN, KNX, STBA, and NKSH.
• NHC's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit National Healthcare Corp's official web site, go to www.nhccare.com.

NHC Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Healthcare stock, NHC's price/sales ratio is 90.31% lower, now standing at 1.1.
• NHC's price/earnings ratio has moved down 9.2 over the prior 243 months.
• NHC's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.7 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NHC.

NHC Growth Metrics

• The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -56.63%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 87.25%.
• Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 43%.

NHC's revenue has moved up $20,360,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows NHC's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	1,024.582	88.654	166.549
2021-03-31	1,023.066	208.094	89.99
2020-12-31	1,028.217	203.259	41.871
2020-09-30	1,022.272	209.119	28.091
2020-06-30	1,018.713	215.658	34.703
2020-03-31	1,004.222	96.256	20.09

NHC's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• NHC has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 71.44% of graded US stocks.
• NHC's asset turnover comes in at 0.743 -- ranking 40th of 81 Healthcare stocks.
• ENSG, DVCR, and VCYT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NHC.

The table below shows NHC's key quality metrics over time.