How National HealthCare Corporation stacks up

NHC · against 557 other Healthcare companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

73/ 100

Near the top of its peers.

Ranked #116 of 558 · scores higher than 79% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

33 peers with a profitability score of 70–79, including NHC · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 73?

Weighted metrics compared with all Healthcare companies.

Mainly thanks to its return on assets and return on invested capital, which are stronger than most Healthcare peers.

Operating margin is close to the peer norm. Operating margin: 9.3% vs peer median 7.1%
a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 69% of peers. Return on invested capital: 10.6% vs peer median 4.7%
a higher return on assets: stronger than 88% of peers. Return on assets: 9.1% vs peer median 1.7%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = NHC, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	NHC	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 517 reported	10.6%	-7.0%	77%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 479 reported	9.3%	-2.4%	68%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 582 reported	9.1%	-7.8%	85%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 531 reported	13.3%	-19.7%	81%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 601 reported	39.5%	43.9%	48%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around NHC

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Arbutus Biopharma CorporationABUS · US-listed	595M USD	99	97
1	CorMedix Inc.CRMD · US-listed	433M USD	99	81
1	Exelixis, Inc.EXEL · US-listed	17.9B USD	99	76
1	IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.IDXX · US-listed	52.9B USD	99	57
1	Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc.IRWD · US-listed	578M USD	99	73
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111	Penumbra, Inc.PEN · US-listed	12.6B USD	75	65
111	Veracyte, Inc.VCYT · US-listed	4.0B USD	75	72
115	Haleon plcHLN · US-listed	38.9B USD	74	56
116	The Ensign Group, Inc.ENSG · US-listed	10.6B USD	73	64
116	National HealthCare CorporationNHC · US-listed	3.2B USD	73	65
116	Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc.PBH · US-listed	2.3B USD	73	52
116	Dr. Reddy's Laboratories LimitedRDY · US-listed	11.9B USD	73	53
120	Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Inc.AMRX · US-listed	7.0B USD	72	57
120	Bioventus Inc.BVS · US-listed	748M USD	72	62

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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