Compare · ENSG vs NHC
ENSG vs NHC
Side-by-side comparison of The Ensign Group Inc. (ENSG) and National HealthCare Corporation (NHC): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both ENSG and NHC operate in Hospital/Nursing Management (Health Care), so they compete in similar markets.
- ENSG is the larger of the two at $9.64B, about 3.4x NHC ($2.80B).
- Over the past year, ENSG is up 11.5% and NHC is up 76.9% - NHC leads by 65.4 points.
- ENSG has been more active in the news (12 items in the past 4 weeks vs 10 for NHC).
- ENSG has more recent analyst coverage (6 ratings vs 0 for NHC).
- Company
- The Ensign Group Inc.
- National HealthCare Corporation
- Price
- $164.99-1.57%
- $183.15-0.38%
- Market cap
- $9.64B
- $2.80B
- 1M return
- -11.54%
- +6.79%
- 1Y return
- +11.46%
- +76.91%
- Industry
- Hospital/Nursing Management
- Hospital/Nursing Management
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- AMEX
- IPO
- 2007
- 1986
- News (4w)
- 12
- 10
- Recent ratings
- 6
- 0
The Ensign Group Inc.
The Ensign Group, Inc. provides health care services in the post-acute care continuum and other ancillary businesses. It operates in two segments, Transitional and Skilled Services and Real Estate. The company offers transitional and skilled services, which include short and long-term nursing care services for patients with chronic conditions, prolonged illness, and the elderly; and physical, occupational, and speech therapies and other rehabilitative and healthcare services. It also provides standard services, such as room and board, special nutritional program, social, recreational, entertainment, and other services. In addition, the company offers senior living, as well as mobile diagnostics services; leases real estate properties; and provides other ancillary services consisting of digital x-ray, ultrasound, electrocardiogram, laboratory, sub-acute, and patient transportation services to people in their homes or at long-term care facilities. As of February 2, 2021, it operated 232 healthcare facilities in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in San Juan Capistrano, California.
National HealthCare Corporation
National HealthCare Corporation operates, manages, and provides services to skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, independent living facilities, home health care programs, and a behavioral health hospital. Its skilled nursing facilities offer licensed therapy services, nutrition services, social services, activities, and housekeeping and laundry services, as well as medical services prescribed by physicians; and rehabilitative services, such as physical, speech, respiratory, and occupational therapy for patients recovering from strokes, heart attacks, orthopedic conditions, neurological illnesses, or other illnesses, injuries, or disabilities. The company's medical specialty units comprise memory care units and subacute nursing units that provide specialized care and programs for persons with Alzheimer's or related disorders; and assisted living centers offer personal care services and assistance with general activities of daily living, such as dressing, bathing, meal preparation, and medication management. It also owns, leases, and manages independent living facilities that provide specially designed residential units for the active and ambulatory elderly, as well as offers various ancillary services for its residents, including restaurants, activity rooms, and social areas. In addition, it provides health care programs that offer skilled services, such as infusion, wound care and physical, occupational, and speech therapies; operates pharmacies; offers managed care insurance, management, accounting, financial, and insurance, as well as geriatric behavioral health services; and leases its properties to third party operators. As of December 31, 2020, the company operated 75 skilled nursing facilities with 9,463 licensed beds; 24 assisted living facilities; 5 independent living facilities; 35 homecare programs; and 4 pharmacy locations, as well as a 16-bed behavioral health hospital. National HealthCare Corporation was founded in 1971 and is based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Latest ENSG
- President and COO Burton Spencer covered exercise/tax liability with 545 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.79% to 68,470 units (SEC Form 4)
- CIO and EVP Keetch Chad covered exercise/tax liability with 632 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.57% to 109,735 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Executive Officer Port Barry covered exercise/tax liability with 1,018 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 80,784 units (SEC Form 4)
- CFO Snapper Suzanne D. covered exercise/tax liability with 916 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.31% to 292,467 units (SEC Form 4)
- VP and Chief Legal Officer Wittekind Beverly B. covered exercise/tax liability with 225 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.67% to 33,135 units (SEC Form 4)
- VP and Chief Legal Officer Wittekind Beverly B. covered exercise/tax liability with 306 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.91% to 33,360 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Uychiat Pison Marivic covered exercise/tax liability with 82 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.57% to 14,258 units (SEC Form 4)
- CFO Snapper Suzanne D. covered exercise/tax liability with 489 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.17% to 293,383 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Executive Officer Port Barry covered exercise/tax liability with 550 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.67% to 81,802 units (SEC Form 4)
- CIO and EVP Keetch Chad covered exercise/tax liability with 387 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.35% to 110,367 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest NHC
- National HealthCare Corporation filed SEC Form 8-K: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement, Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation, Financial Statements and Exhibits
- Senior VP & CIO Flatt Ben Anderson Sr exercised 4,000 shares at a strike of $94.10 and covered exercise/tax liability with 2,739 shares, increasing direct ownership by 6% to 22,636 units (SEC Form 4) (for withholding tax)
- Director Laroche Richard F Jr sold $1,463,566 worth of Common Stock - Held in my name or my wife's name (7,500 units at $195.14), decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 205,760 units (SEC Form 4)
- CEO Flatt Stephen Fowler gifted 26 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.04% to 66,987 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form 144 filed by National HealthCare Corporation
- Sr.VP Operations Shelly Timothy J. sold $365,444 worth of shares (1,853 units at $197.22), decreasing direct ownership by 59% to 1,294 units (SEC Form 4)
- CEO Flatt Stephen Fowler exercised 6,000 shares at a strike of $93.52 and covered exercise/tax liability with 4,492 shares, increasing direct ownership by 2% to 67,013 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding obligation
- SVP, CFO Kidd Brian F exercised 4,500 shares at a strike of $93.71 and covered exercise/tax liability with 3,134 shares, increasing direct ownership by 5% to 30,496 units (SEC Form 4) (tax liability)
- National HealthCare Corporation filed SEC Form 8-K: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Financial Statements and Exhibits
- National HealthCare Corporation filed SEC Form 8-K: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders