Dividends

NHCNational HealthCare Corporation

StockNYSE AmericanUnited StatesHealth careEU retail: available

0.0% today · +76.2% over a year

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Quality, Trend, Stability, Dividend safety: among the best of its peers; priced lower than most peers. Dividend yield 1.24%.

National HealthCare Corporation (NHC) dividends: trailing yield 1.24%, Dividend Safety 92/100, raised 22 years in a row, 5-year growth 4.7% a year.

Trailing 12-month yieldA high yield can signal risk rather than safety: payouts may be cut, and part of a fund's distribution may be your own capital returned.
1.24%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
1.27%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$2.62
Payments per year
4
Dividend safety0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, growth streak and how stretched the yield looks.
92 / 100
Very safe

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
1.24% → 1.02%
Forward
1.27% → 1.04%

Of every 100 paid out

Withheld at source (United States)
15.00%
Cyprus Special Defence Contribution (after credit for foreign tax)
0.00%
Cyprus GeSY health contribution
2.65%
You keep
82.35%
  • Source country assumed: United States (from the issuer’s data). Depositary receipts and companies listed outside their home country may be taxed by that home country.
  • US rate 15 % assumes a W-8BEN form is on file with your broker (US–Cyprus treaty); without it the US withholds 30 %.
  • GeSY 2.65 % applies to dividends and interest of every Cyprus resident, domiciled or not, up to €180,000 of income a year.

Cyprus resident, domiciled: 1.02%

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Next payment

No upcoming payment has been announced yet.

Dividend profile

5-year dividend growth (per year)
+4.7%
Years of dividend growth
22
Years without a cut
22
Payout ratio (earnings)
30%
Payout ratio (free cash flow)
27%

Annual total matches the company's SEC filing

Dividends per share by year

Sum of payments by calendar year of the ex-date; the current year is left out until it ends.

Dividends per share by year: 2016 $0.45, 2017 $1.89, 2018 $1.98, 2019 $2.06, 2020 $2.08, 2021 $2.11, 2022 $2.26, 2023 $2.34, 2024 $2.42, 2025 $2.532016: $0.452017: $1.892018: $1.982019: $2.062020: $2.082021: $2.112022: $2.262023: $2.342024: $2.422025: $2.53

Payment history

Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.

Status
30 Sep 2026—$0.67RegularSingle source1
30 Jun 2026—$0.67RegularSingle source1
31 Mar 2026—$0.64RegularSingle source1
31 Dec 2025—$0.64RegularSingle source1

Each payment is checked against 1 data feed. Verified needs two independent ones. Verified: two or more sources agree. Single source: not cross-checked yet. Sources disagree: the median is shown. Announced: declared, may still change.

What dividend safety is made of

0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, growth streak and how stretched the yield looks.

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