NHC Announces a 6.25% Increase in Common Dividend and Announces Preferred Dividend
For release: May 8, 2014
Contact: Gerald Coggin, Senior VP of Corporate Relations
Phone: (615) 890-2020
MURFREESBORO, TN — National HealthCare Corporation (NYSE MKT: NHC, NHC.PRA), the nation’s oldest publicly traded long-term health care company, announced today that it will pay a quarterly dividend of 34 cents per common share to shareholders of record on June 30, 2014 and payable on September 2, 2014. This represents a 6.25% increase over last quarter’s regular common dividend.
The Company will also pay a quarterly dividend of 20 cents per preferred share to shareholders of record on June 16, 2014 and payable on July 15, 2014.