NHC Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (National Healthcare | AMEX:NHC)

National Healthcare Corp Provides long-term care facilities. Its principal business includes the operation of skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, independent living facilities, and home care programs. The company's activities include providing sub-acute and post-acute skilled nursing care, intermediate nursing care, rehabilitative care, memory and Alzheimer's care, senior living services, and home health care services. In addition, the company also provides management services, accounting, and financial services, as well as insurance services to third-party operators of healthcare facilities. Its reportable segments include Inpatient services, and Home care hospice services. Generating, a majority of its revenue from Inpatient services.

National Healthcare trades on the AMEX stock market under the symbol NHC.

As of December 26, 2025, NHC stock price climbed to $138.68 with 29,854 million shares trading.

NHC has a beta of 0.50, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. NHC has a correlation of 0.08 to the broad based SPY ETF.

NHC has a market cap of $2.15 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, NHC traded as high as $144.53 and as low as $51.56.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that NHC belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, SDVY, IWM, VB.

NHC has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +26.9% while the SPY ETF gained +16.0%. NHC has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +11.6% and +2.7%, respectively, while the SPY returned +4.7% and +0.7%, respectively.

NHC support price is $135.59 and resistance is $141.55 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that NHC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.