Healthcare
Live Price
Offline$201.79
-0.50% today
1Y Change
+86.98%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 22, 2026
Coverage: 248 bars · Jun 25, 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 $201.79 and up 87.0% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 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.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$1.0B
-5.9% YoY
FY Net Income
$138.6M
+517.5% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$23.0M
+207.2% YoY
Revenue Growth
+16.4%
EPS Growth
+17.2%
Gross Margin
46.4%
Net Margin
7.9%
Income statement
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| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1.5B | 1.3B | 1.1B | 1.1B | 1.0B |
| Gross Profit | 1.0B | 487M | 429M | 388M | 345M |
| Operating Income | 143M | 86M | 57M | 32M | 51M |
| EBITDA | 214M | 183M | 131M | 68M | 192M |
| Net Income | 120M | 102M | 67M | 22M | 139M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
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| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 111M | 76M | 107M | 59M | 108M |
| Total Assets | 1.5B | 1.5B | 1.3B | 1.3B | 1.4B |
| Total Liabilities | 452M | 541M | 400M | 398M | 495M |
| Shareholder Equity | 1.1B | 980M | 909M | 874M | 903M |
| Total Debt | 87M | 215M | 93M | 126M | 167M |
| Net Debt | -24M | 139M | -14M | 67M | 59M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
62M
+613.7% YoY
Capital Expenditures
39M
-30.5% YoY
Free Cash Flow
23M
+207.2% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
46.4%
Operating Margin
8.1%
Net Margin
7.9%
ROE
11.6%
Debt / Equity
0.08x
Next Step
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