NRC Health (NRC) Stock Analysis
Healthcare · Health Information Services
Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $22.40 — A.R:R is negative (-0.8) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Near 52-week high (1.7% away).
NRC Health provides analytics and insights to measure and improve patient and employee experience for healthcare organizations in the United States. The company offers market experience solutions, a subscription-based services for improved tracking of awareness, perception, and... Read more
Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $22.40 — A.R:R is negative (-0.8) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Near 52-week high (1.7% away). Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Score 5.7/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 7/8 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 23d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: aggressive.
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3 floor-breakers
Technicals below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
No near-term catalyst priced in. Thesis progression will come from fundamentals grinding, not event reaction.static
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
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Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $22.40 — A.R:R is negative (-0.8) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Near 52-week high (1.7% away). Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Prior stop was $20.83. Score 5.7/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $22.20 (-0.9% upside). Prior stop was $20.83. Stop-loss: $20.83.
Analyst target reached - limited upside remaining; Near 52-week high (1.7% away); Leverage penalty (D/E 5.8): -1.5.
NRC Health trades at a P/E of 57.4 (forward 20.9). TrendMatrix value score: 6.4/10. Verdict: Sell.
8 analysts cover NRC with a consensus score of 2.3/5. Average price target: $23.
What does NRC Health do?NRC Health provides analytics and insights to measure and improve patient and employee experience for healthcare...
NRC Health provides analytics and insights to measure and improve patient and employee experience for healthcare organizations in the United States. The company offers market experience solutions, a subscription-based services for improved tracking of awareness, perception, and consistency of healthcare brands; assessment of differentiators; and segmentation tools to evaluate the needs, wants, and behaviors of communities through assessments. It also provides patient experience solutions, a cross-continuum multi-mode digital platform that collects and measures data to improve patient experience, engagement, and loyalty; employee experience solutions, which combines health care with technology comprising engagement, pulse, lifecycle, culture of safety, and magnet RN satisfaction; and consumer experience solution that offers online reputation solutions, community insights, and cross-journey listening through nGage. In addition, the company offers Huey, an AI engine built for Human Understanding that serves as a healthcare experience management companion; and governance solutions provided through national conferences, publications, advisory services, and an online portal for not-for-profit health system boards of directors, executives, and physician leadership. Further, it provides patient experience, service recovery, care transitions, employee engagement, reputation management, rounding, and brand loyalty. The company was formerly known as National Research Corporation and changed its name to NRC Health April 2026. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska.