Is it safe?
Can NHC take a bad year?
National HealthCare Corporation holds $349M more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
$349M
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Altman Z-score
- 6.38
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 56.6×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $0
- Cash and short-term investments
- $349M
- Net cash
- $349M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $190M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $145M
- Debt / equity
- 0.00×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.00×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 32%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −35%
- Below its 52-week high
- −4.8%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.