Healthcare
Live Price
Offline$201.53
-0.63% today
1Y Change
+84.69%
Window
Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 22, 2026
Coverage: 247 bars · Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 22, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
National HealthCare Corporation (NHC) is a Healthcare stock with a market cap of $2.73B and listed on AMEX. The stock last traded around $201.53 and up 84.7% across the available one-year price window (Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 22, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +16.4%, EPS growth of +17.2%, a dividend yield of 1.5%. What stands out right now is revenue +16.4%, EPS +17.2%, free cash flow +86.5% with operating margin 8.1% and ROIC 7.0%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 1.5%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 22.5 and price/sales 1.8. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a higher-growth but lower-margin setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines NHC price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Healthcare peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
NHC
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
NHC Max Drawdown
-13.36%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for NHC and SPY.
Powered by FMP stock_dividend. Includes historical ex-dates, pay dates, and payout amounts.
Dividend Yield
1.46%
Trailing 12M Payout
$2.56
Last Payout
| Ex-Date | Record | Pay | Dividend | Adj | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.64 | $0.64 | Quarterly |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 30, 2026 | $0.64 | $0.64 | Quarterly |
| Sep 30, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 | $0.64 | $0.64 | Quarterly |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | Aug 1, 2025 | $0.64 | $0.64 | Quarterly |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | Apr 25, 2025 | $0.61 | $0.61 | Quarterly |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 31, 2025 | $0.61 | $0.61 | Quarterly |
| Sep 30, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | Nov 1, 2024 | $0.61 | $0.61 | Quarterly |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | Aug 1, 2024 | $0.61 | $0.61 | Quarterly |
| Mar 27, 2024 | Mar 29, 2024 | May 1, 2024 | $0.59 | $0.59 | Quarterly |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | Feb 1, 2024 | $0.59 | $0.59 | Quarterly |
| Sep 28, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | Nov 1, 2023 | $0.59 | $0.59 | Quarterly |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Jun 30, 2023 | Jul 31, 2023 | $0.59 | $0.59 | Quarterly |
| Mar 30, 2023 | Mar 31, 2023 | May 1, 2023 | $0.57 | $0.57 | Quarterly |
| Dec 29, 2022 | Dec 30, 2022 | Feb 1, 2023 | $0.57 | $0.57 | Quarterly |
| Sep 29, 2022 | Sep 30, 2022 | Nov 1, 2022 | $0.57 | $0.57 | Quarterly |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Jun 30, 2022 | Aug 1, 2022 | $0.57 | $0.57 | Quarterly |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Mar 31, 2022 | May 2, 2022 | $0.55 | $0.55 | Quarterly |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Dec 31, 2021 | Feb 1, 2022 | $0.55 | $0.55 | Quarterly |
| Sep 29, 2021 | Sep 30, 2021 | Nov 1, 2021 | $0.52 | $0.52 | Quarterly |
| Jun 29, 2021 | Jun 30, 2021 | Aug 2, 2021 | $0.52 | $0.52 | Quarterly |
| Mar 30, 2021 | Mar 31, 2021 | May 3, 2021 | $0.52 | $0.52 | Quarterly |
| Dec 30, 2020 | Dec 31, 2020 | Feb 1, 2021 | $0.52 | $0.52 | Quarterly |
| Sep 29, 2020 | Sep 30, 2020 | Nov 2, 2020 | $0.52 | $0.52 | Quarterly |
| Jun 29, 2020 | Jun 30, 2020 | Aug 3, 2020 | $0.52 | $0.52 | Quarterly |
| Mar 30, 2020 | Mar 31, 2020 | May 1, 2020 | $0.52 | $0.52 | Quarterly |
| Dec 30, 2019 | Dec 31, 2019 | Feb 3, 2020 | $0.52 | $0.52 | Quarterly |
| Sep 27, 2019 | Sep 30, 2019 | Dec 2, 2019 | $0.52 | $0.52 | Quarterly |
| Jun 27, 2019 | Jun 28, 2019 | Aug 30, 2019 | $0.52 | $0.52 | Quarterly |
| Mar 28, 2019 | Mar 29, 2019 | Jun 3, 2019 | $0.50 | $0.50 | Quarterly |
| Dec 28, 2018 | Dec 31, 2018 | Mar 1, 2019 | $0.50 | $0.50 | Quarterly |
| Sep 27, 2018 | Sep 28, 2018 | Dec 3, 2018 | $0.50 | $0.50 | Quarterly |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Jun 29, 2018 | Aug 31, 2018 | $0.50 | $0.50 | Quarterly |
| Mar 28, 2018 | Mar 30, 2018 | Jun 1, 2018 | $0.48 | $0.48 | Quarterly |
| Dec 28, 2017 | Dec 29, 2017 | Mar 1, 2018 | $0.48 | $0.48 | Quarterly |
| Sep 28, 2017 | Sep 29, 2017 | Dec 1, 2017 | $0.48 | $0.48 | Quarterly |
| Jun 28, 2017 | Jun 30, 2017 | Sep 1, 2017 | $0.48 | $0.48 | Quarterly |
| Mar 29, 2017 | Mar 31, 2017 | Jun 1, 2017 | $0.45 | $0.45 | Quarterly |
| Dec 28, 2016 | Dec 30, 2016 | Mar 1, 2017 | $0.45 | $0.45 | Quarterly |
| Sep 28, 2016 | Sep 30, 2016 | Dec 1, 2016 | $0.45 | $0.45 | Quarterly |
| Jun 28, 2016 | Jun 30, 2016 | Sep 1, 2016 | $0.45 | $0.45 | Quarterly |
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