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.

What symbol and exchange does National Healthcare shares trade?

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

What is National Healthcare stock price doing today?

As of January 16, 2026, NHC stock price declined to $137.75 with 19,177 million shares trading.

What is National Healthcare's Beta?

NHC has a beta of 0.36, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. NHC has a correlation of 0.05 to the broad based SPY ETF.

How much is National Healthcare worth?

NHC has a market cap of $2.14 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

What is the highest and lowest price National Healthcare traded in the last 3 year period?

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

What are the top ETFs holding National Healthcare?

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

Is National Healthcare (NHC) a good investment?

NHC has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +42.2%, while the SPY ETF gained +18.1%. In the last 3 month period, NHC beat the market returning +13.0%, while SPY returned +4.4%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks NHC has underperformed the stock market by returning +0.5%, while SPY returned +1.6%.

What are the support and resistance levels for National Healthcare (NHC)?

NHC support price is $135.71 and resistance is $142.31 (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.