Growth Metrics

National Healthcare (NHC) FCF Payout Ratio (2016 - 2025)

National Healthcare's FCF Payout Ratio history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 1.55 for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, FCF Payout Ratio fell 23.79% year-over-year to 1.55; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.26, down 43.67%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.26, 43.85% down from the prior year.
  • FCF Payout Ratio reached 1.55 in Q4 2025 per NHC's latest filing, up from 0.18 in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, FCF Payout Ratio ranged from a high of 4.23 in Q4 2021 to a low of 1.36 in Q3 2021.
  • Average FCF Payout Ratio over 5 years is 0.73, with a median of 0.39 recorded in 2021.
  • The largest YoY upside for FCF Payout Ratio was 702.5% in 2021 against a maximum downside of 509.2% in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 4.23 in 2021, then plummeted by 67.02% to 1.39 in 2022, then plummeted by 62.13% to 0.53 in 2023, then surged by 285.29% to 2.03 in 2024, then fell by 23.79% to 1.55 in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for NHC's FCF Payout Ratio are 1.55 (Q4 2025), 0.18 (Q3 2025), and 0.19 (Q2 2025).