Company Analysis

Encompass Health Corporation (EHC)

NYSE: EHC · Services-Hospitals · Birmingham, AL · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade6.3
◀ Past 5.5● Present 7.0▶ Future 6.1

The grade of Encompass Health Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.3/10
◀ Past5.530% of the headline
● Present7.040% of the headline
▶ Future6.130% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.5/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.3/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 73rd percentile among 22 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Encompass Health Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
4.3/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+5.6% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 22 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Encompass Health Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.6 billion in fiscal 2016 to $5.9 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5.6% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 23% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span5.6%bottom 34% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 41% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 25% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak22.6%bottom 20% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.5/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.6% a year. 13% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 18 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 55th percentile among 22 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Encompass Health Corporation's diluted share count grew about 0.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 13% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 18 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-19 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 48% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 43% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

7.0/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
6.1/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 23%: 23¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 66%: owes 66¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 61st percentile among 22 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Encompass Health Corporation earned about 23 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 66 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count was unchanged over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 48% of its family
  • return on equitytop 25% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
7.5/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 25% of 22 in its family; net margin 9.5%.

weight 45% of this tense · 75th percentile among 22 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Encompass Health Corporation's standing among 22 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $5.9 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 30% by size; a net margin of 9.5% ranks in the top 11%; revenue growth of 10.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 34% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$5.94Btop 30% of its family
  • net margin9.5%top 11% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth10.9%top 34% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
7.1/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 29% of 19 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2017.

weight 22% of this tense · 71st percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Encompass Health Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Tarr, Mark J (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2017-01-05, 9.9 years (top 18% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.8 years (top 19%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (top 50%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge8 in three years among 16 peopletop 50% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed9.8 yearstop 19% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record9.9 yearstop 18% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

6.1/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 46% of 22 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 54th percentile among 22 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Encompass Health Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $72 million against debt of $2.4 billion leaves -33.5% of its assets as net cash, top 45% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 7.4% of revenue (top 48%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-33.5%top 45% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue7.4%top 48% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
6.9/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 31% of 22 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 69th percentile among 22 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Encompass Health Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 10.9% a year over the last three filed years against 5.6% over all 10, speeding up (top 16% of its family); the newest year grew 10.5% (top 43%); capital spending grew 8% a year (top 34%) (its annual reports). Encompass Health Corporation reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Inpatient at $5.8 billion (97%), Other at $179 million (3%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+5.3 points a yeartop 16% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth10.5%top 43% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending8.0%top 34% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
5.5/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 45% of 22 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 55th percentile among 22 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Encompass Health Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $5.9 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.6% below the $6.0 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 48% of its family); net income of $566 million against a prior three-year average of $360 million (top 48%); a net margin of 9.5% against 7.3% before (top 34%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-0.6%bottom 48% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+57%top 48% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+2.2 pointstop 34% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton EHC · research, not advice