---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-015666"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NHC"
cik: "0001047335"
company_name: "NATIONAL HEALTHCARE CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T01:13:18.094733+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NHC raises quarterly common dividend 4.9% to $0.64 per share

## Summary
- Quarterly dividend increased to $0.64 per common share from $0.61.
- Shareholders of record on June 30, 2025, payable on August 1, 2025.
- Represents a 4.9% sequential increase in the regular common dividend.
- NHC is the oldest publicly traded long-term health care company on NYSE American.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-015666
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NHC
- cik: 0001047335
- company_name: NATIONAL HEALTHCARE CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1047335/000143774925015666/0001437749-25-015666-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1047335/000143774925015666/nhc20250507_8k.htm

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