Is the business good?
How good a business is NHC?
National HealthCare Corporation earns 15% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
15%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 5.8 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 9.3%
Operating margin · Medical Care Facilities median 8.9% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.04×
Cash conversion · 1.14× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- +1.7%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 4.7% |
| FY2021 | 4.7% |
| FY2022 | 2.9% |
| FY2023 | 5.0% |
| FY2024 | 6.9% |
| FY2025 | 8.5% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 9.3%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 9.0%
- Free cash flow margin
- 9.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.56B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $147M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $140M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 15%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.