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<a href="https://smartkarma.com/entities/national-healthcare-corp">National Healthcare</a> (NHC) is a diversified senior care operator with a strong regional focus in the Southeastern U.S., demonstrating robust financial performance characterized by significant recent growth in net income and earnings per share.</li>
  <li>The company is well-positioned to capitalize on long-term demographic tailwinds from an aging U.S. population, which is expected to drive sustained demand for its continuum of care services, including skilled nursing, assisted living, and home health.</li>
  <li>Key risks to the outlook include high dependence on government reimbursement rates from Medicare and Medicaid, significant operating leverage to labor costs and availability, and increasing competition from other forms of senior care.</li>
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National Healthcare (NHC) is a diversified senior care operator with a strong regional focus in the Southeastern U.S., demonstrating robust financial performance characterized by significant recent growth in net income and earnings per share.
  The company is well-positioned to capitalize on long-term demographic tailwinds from an aging U.S. population, which is expected to drive sustained demand for its continuum of care services, including skilled nursing, assisted living, and home health.
  Key risks to the outlook include high dependence on government reimbursement rates from Medicare and Medicaid, significant operating leverage to labor costs and availability, and increasing competition from other forms of senior care.
This content is AI-generated and displayed for general informational purposes only. Please verify independently before use.

Primer: National Healthcare (NHC US) - Aug 2026

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>We remain bullish (as of our 4/21/26 Compass) on the S&amp;P 500 (SPX), Nasdaq 100 (QQQ), and Russell 2000 (IWM).</li>
<li>With that said, we have expressed our concern over the past two weeks in our reports, particularly as it relates to a prolonged consolidation for QQQ/Technology (XLK).</li>
<li>We continue to believe a consolidation/continuation of the short-term downtrends is likely through mid-to-late-August amid ongoing choppy price action for semiconductors (SOXX), memory (DRAM), and optical equipment/photonics (EUV) names.</li>
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We remain bullish (as of our 4/21/26 Compass) on the S&amp;P 500 (SPX), Nasdaq 100 (QQQ), and Russell 2000 (IWM).
With that said, we have expressed our concern over the past two weeks in our reports, particularly as it relates to a prolonged consolidation for QQQ/Technology (XLK).
We continue to believe a consolidation/continuation of the short-term downtrends is likely through mid-to-late-August amid ongoing choppy price action for semiconductors (SOXX), memory (DRAM), and optical equipment/photonics (EUV) names.


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Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Index Rebalance

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/uber-technologies-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:430:1" rel="noopener">Uber Technologies (UBER US)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/jabil-circuit-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16674:1" rel="noopener">Jabil Circuit (JBL US)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/builders-firstsource-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4720:1" rel="noopener">Builders Firstsource (BLDR US)</a> will be added to the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/s-p-500-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22886:1" rel="noopener">S&amp;P 500 INDEX (SPX INDEX)</a> at the close on 15 December.</li>
<li>There are a bunch of inclusions. deletions and migrations across the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/s-p-500-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22886:1" rel="noopener">S&amp;P 500 INDEX (SPX INDEX)</a>, the S&amp;P Midcap 400 Index, and the S&amp;P SmallCap 600 Index.</li>
<li>We estimate passive trackers will need to buy around US$18bn of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/uber-technologies-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:430:1" rel="noopener">Uber Technologies (UBER US)</a>. There has been positioning in the stock for just over a month now. </li>
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Uber Technologies (UBER US), Jabil Circuit (JBL US) and Builders Firstsource (BLDR US) will be added to the S&amp;P 500 INDEX (SPX INDEX) at the close on 15 December.
There are a bunch of inclusions. deletions and migrations across the S&amp;P 500 INDEX (SPX INDEX), the S&amp;P Midcap 400 Index, and the S&amp;P SmallCap 600 Index.
We estimate passive trackers will need to buy around US$18bn of Uber Technologies (UBER US). There has been positioning in the stock for just over a month now. 


Financial Select Sector SPDR F / Technical Analysis

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<li>We will stay near-term bullish as long as crucial support levels of 6780-6824 on SPX and $255-$257 on IWM continue to hold. With that said, we continue to see deterioration...</li>
<li>...in market dynamics that has us concerned of a deeper pullback, potentially to 6720-6776, 6690, or 6480-6520 on SPX, but 6780-6824 support would need to break first</li>
<li>Financials (XLF) and Discretionary (XLY) are violating crucial price and RS supports, and we are downgrading both Sectors to underweight</li>
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We will stay near-term bullish as long as crucial support levels of 6780-6824 on SPX and $255-$257 on IWM continue to hold. With that said, we continue to see deterioration...
...in market dynamics that has us concerned of a deeper pullback, potentially to 6720-6776, 6690, or 6480-6520 on SPX, but 6780-6824 support would need to break first
Financials (XLF) and Discretionary (XLY) are violating crucial price and RS supports, and we are downgrading both Sectors to underweight


Defensives Still Leading; Deeper Pullback?; Downgrading Financials and Discretionary to Underweight

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<li>We remain near-term bullish since our 4/22/25 Compass, and our intermediate-term outlook remains bullish as well (as of our 5/14/25 Compass).</li>
<li>SPX is pulling back after hitting all-time highs; the gap at 6750-6772 is short-term support, and it is a clear sign bulls remain in control if this gap remains unfilled.</li>
<li>We will stay near-term bullish as long as the 3+ month uptrend continues (currently at ~6675). Additional supports include 6550-6569, 6480-6520, 6450, 6400-6410, 6340-6360, 6290, 6200, and 6100-6150</li>
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We remain near-term bullish since our 4/22/25 Compass, and our intermediate-term outlook remains bullish as well (as of our 5/14/25 Compass).
SPX is pulling back after hitting all-time highs; the gap at 6750-6772 is short-term support, and it is a clear sign bulls remain in control if this gap remains unfilled.
We will stay near-term bullish as long as the 3+ month uptrend continues (currently at ~6675). Additional supports include 6550-6569, 6480-6520, 6450, 6400-6410, 6340-6360, 6290, 6200, and 6100-6150


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United States

National Healthcare Corporation operates long-term health care centers.  The Company also operates homecare programs, independent living centers, and assisted living centers.  National Healthcare's other services include managed care specialty medical units, Alzheimer's units, and a rehabilitation services company.

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National Healthcare (NHC US)

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