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National Health Investors Inc. NHI

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$80.1M
▲ 47.1% YoY
$142.2M
▲ 3.0% YoY
$-57.5M
▼ 215.3% YoY
In brief

What this company does

National Health Investors, Inc., established in 1991 as a Maryland corporation, is a self-managed real estate investment trust. The company operates through two reportable segments, Real Estate Investments and Senior Housing Operating Portfolio (SHOP). As of December 31, 2025, the Real Estate Investments segment consisted of gross real estate investments of $2.7 billion in 176 properties, excluding one property classified as assets held for sale, located in 32 states and leased primarily via triple-net leases to 31 tenants. As of December 31, 2025, the SHOP segment consisted of gross real estate investments of $634.3 million in 26 senior housing communities located in 13 states, comprised of 17 ILFs, six SLCs and three ALFs with a combined total of 3,009 units. For the year ended December 31, 2025, total revenues were $375.6 million, an increase of 12.1% over the prior year, consisting of $271.6 million of rental income, $80.1 million of resident fees and services and $24.0 million of interest and other income. As of December 31, 2025, the company had 32 full-time employees, consisting of 26 employees located in its Murfreesboro, Tennessee corporate office, with one employee in each of Georgia, North Carolina, Oregon and Texas and two employees in Florida.

Written from the business description in National Health Investors, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 26 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 80.1M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 80.1 · Net income 142.2
200M2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+30.8%
−10.0%
−0.2%
+28.9%
−5.1%
−0.5%
+4.9%
+26.8%
−6.1%
−2.6%
+1.3%
+0.4%
−3.8%
+0.7%
+2.9%
−18.5%
−2.7%
+3.1%
+6.4%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
176 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating — · Net 175.8%
100%200%2008201120142017202020232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 9.8%
10%20%2008201120142017202020232025

Each USD of equity produced 10 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 169.7M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF -57.5
80M160M-200M-400M2008201120142017202020232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 169.7 · Net buybacks —
200M-50M-100MDividendsNet buybacks2008201120142017202020232025

USD 169.7M in dividends — 119% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 2.8B
EquityUSD 1.5B
CashUSD 19.6M

Equity funds 54% of total assets.

The 18-year record
18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B0.10.10.00.00.00.00.30.30.30.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.1
Operating income $B······0.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.0
EBITDA $B······0.20.20.20.20.20.1······
Income tax $B·······0.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.0··
Net income $B0.10.10.10.10.10.20.20.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
Free cash flow $B−0.10.00.10.20.20.10.00.10.0−0.20.0−0.4−0.6−0.00.0−0.0−0.00.1
EPS, diluted $3.023.133.131.482.444.143.673.673.873.873.953.043.743.262.922.502.322.07
Dividend / sh $3.643.603.603.603.804.414.204.003.803.603.403.082.902.862.712.362.302.42
Payout %1191131152441641051121079691849980878496100149
ROE %9.810.510.74.87.412.311.111.113.212.913.711.217.420.118.3···
Shares out B0.050.050.040.040.050.050.040.040.040.040.040.040.030.030.030.030.000.00

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 53 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 7 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityReal Estate Investment Trusts
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inMaryland
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2008

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