National HealthCare Corporation (NHC): Price and Financial Metrics

National HealthCare Corporation (NHC): $62.49

1.09 (+1.78%)

POWR Rating

Component Grades

Momentum

F

Stability

B

Sentiment

Quality

C

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Industry: Medical - Services

Industry

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NHC Price/Volume Stats

Current price $62.49 52-week high $72.22
Prev. close $61.40 52-week low $51.56
Day low $61.33 Volume 48,500
Day high $62.70 Avg. volume 67,363
50-day MA $58.47 Dividend yield 3.72%
200-day MA $60.41 Market Cap 957.35M

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NHC POWR Grades

  • NHC scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 93.23% of US stocks.
  • NHC's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
  • NHC's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 4.51% of US stocks).

NHC Stock Summary

  • NATIONAL HEALTHCARE CORP's stock had its IPO on January 20, 1987, making it an older stock than 92.89% of US equities in our set.
  • NHC's current price/earnings ratio is 47.6, which is higher than 87.35% of US stocks with positive earnings.
  • The volatility of NATIONAL HEALTHCARE CORP's share price is greater than that of merely 12.82% 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 AMED, MRTN, BH, PNRG, and SKYW.
  • 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

  • NHC's price/sales ratio is 0.9; this is 82.35% lower than that of the median Healthcare stock.
  • Over the past 243 months, NHC's price/earnings ratio has gone up 35.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NHC.

Stock Date P/S P/B P/E EV/EBIT
NHC 2023-05-23 0.9 1 48.7 37.3
NHC 2023-05-22 0.8 1 48.4 37.0
NHC 2023-05-19 0.9 1 48.6 37.1
NHC 2023-05-18 0.8 1 48.3 37.0
NHC 2023-05-17 0.8 1 47.7 36.5
NHC 2023-05-16 0.8 1 47.3 36.2

NHC Growth Metrics

    The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -59.47%.
  • Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -89.26%.
  • Its 4 year price growth rate is now at -11.43%.
NHC's revenue has moved up $149,445,000 over the prior 70 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
2022-12-31 1,085.738 8.742 22.445
2022-09-30 1,104.619 12.331 31.88
2022-06-30 1,110.513 21.057 30.961
2022-03-31 1,102.312 22.348 132.641
2021-12-31 1,074.302 62.394 138.59
2021-09-30 1,050.693 66.23 150.352

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.

Period Asset Turnover Gross Margin ROIC
2021-06-30 0.743 1 0.174
2021-03-31 0.759 1 0.109
2020-12-31 0.777 1 0.048
2020-09-30 0.784 1 0.031
2020-06-30 0.786 1 0.037
2020-03-31 0.778 1 0.020

National HealthCare Corporation (NHC) Company Bio


National Healthcare Corp. operates, manages, or provides services to skilled nursing facilities and associated assisted living centers, retirement centers, and home health care programs. The company was founded in 1971 and is based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.


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NHC Reports First Quarter 2023 Earnings

MURFREESBORO, Tenn., May 05, 2023--National HealthCare Corporation (NYSE American: NHC), the nation's oldest publicly traded senior health care company, announced today net operating revenues and grant income for the quarter ended March 31, 2023 totaled $269,563,000 compared to $278,983,000 for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, a decrease of 3.4%. The decrease in net operating revenues during the first quarter of 2023 was primarily driven by the reduction in government stimulus income of $10.6 m

Yahoo | May 5, 2023

NHC Announces 3.5% Increase in Common Dividend

MURFREESBORO, Tenn., May 04, 2023--National HealthCare Corporation (NYSE American: NHC), the nation’s oldest publicly traded long-term health care company, announced today that it will pay a quarterly dividend of 59 cents per common share to shareholders of record on June 30, 2023 and payable on July 31, 2023. This represents a 3.5% increase over last quarter’s regular common dividend.

Yahoo | May 4, 2023

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Yahoo | March 4, 2023

NHC Reports 2022 Year End Earnings

MURFREESBORO, Tenn., February 17, 2023--National HealthCare Corporation (NYSE American: NHC), the nation's oldest publicly traded senior health care company, announced today net operating revenues and grant income for the year ended December 31, 2022 totaled $1,085,738,000 compared to $1,074,302,000 for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of 1.1%. The net operating revenues increase in 2022 was despite a reduction in government stimulus income of $51.9 million compared to 2021.

Yahoo | February 17, 2023

NHC Announces Common Dividend

MURFREESBORO, Tenn., February 10, 2023--National HealthCare Corporation (NYSE American: NHC), the nation’s oldest publicly traded long-term health care company, announced today that it will pay a quarterly dividend of 57 cents per common share to shareholders of record on March 31, 2023 and payable on May 1, 2023.

Yahoo | February 10, 2023

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NHC Price Returns

1-mo 9.98%
3-mo 16.69%
6-mo 10.35%
1-year -8.75%
3-year 1.23%
5-year 6.10%
YTD 6.08%
2022 -9.42%
2021 5.39%
2020 -20.66%
2019 13.02%
2018 32.43%

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