National HealthCare Corporation (NHC): Price and Financial Metrics

NHC POWR Grades

• NHC scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 99.33% of US stocks.
• NHC's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• NHC ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 17th percentile.

NHC Stock Summary

• National Healthcare Corp's stock had its IPO on January 20, 1987, making it an older stock than 92.02% 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 180.03%; that's higher than 88.66% of US stocks.
• The volatility of National Healthcare Corp's share price is greater than that of only 10.44% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to NHC, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are MRTN, PEBK, FGBI, NKSH, and UNAM.
• Visit NHC's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's 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 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 43%.
• The 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 69.61%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 116.19%.

Over the past 34 months, NHC's revenue has gone up $88,629,000.

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
2021-12-31	1,074.302	62.394	138.59
2021-09-30	1,050.693	66.23	150.352
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

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 72.89% of graded US stocks.
• NHC's asset turnover comes in at 0.743 -- ranking 41st of 81 Healthcare stocks.
• DVCR, VCYT, and RDNT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NHC.

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