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Fresenius Medical Care Corporation (FMS) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Fresenius Medical Care runs dialysis clinics and related services for people with kidney disease, treating patients across outpatient centres and under hospital contracts. It also designs and supplies the machines, solutions and consumables those clinics use, spanning haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis equipment, concentrates, bloodlines and water-treatment systems.

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for FMS, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 45/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-11-03
  • Factor regime Defensive rotation — low-vol leading, regime-change watchMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): below its 50-day trend, 76th percentile of the window, -20.6% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-11-02
  • Sector × region Health care in US: +2.7% week · +9.9% month · +12.5% quarter · +24.7% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLV.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-11-03
  • Sovereign pressure Index -1.63 · down 2.22 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-11-02
How it trades on rate days beta 0.38 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How FMS has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.38 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Fresenius Medical Care Corporation moved 0.38% on average · correlation 0.12 · higher than 30% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.44 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.85% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.27% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Medical Care Facilities · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Medical Care Facilities · US

Names in the same industry from the Closelooknet universe; scored names rank on their Closelooknet score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against FMS on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Fresenius Medical Care Corporation

FMS in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Fresenius Medical Care runs dialysis clinics and related services for people with kidney disease, treating patients across outpatient centres and under hospital contracts. It also designs and supplies the machines, solutions and consumables those clinics use, spanning haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis equipment, concentrates, bloodlines and water-treatment systems. The group organises this work into a care-delivery arm that treats patients and a care-enablement arm that makes the products, and it is based in Bad Homburg, Germany.
Where it sits in the stack
Fresenius Medical Care carries no seat in our index and sits outside the AI build-out layers the diary tracks; it belongs to the healthcare sector, within medical care facilities, as a dialysis-services and equipment name rather than a supplier to the compute stack.
Who it is priced against
There is no peer group set for it in our records; the comparison the market draws is with DaVita, the other large dialysis-services operator.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It carries a Closelooknet score, but only one module has been scored so far, so the read is still being built rather than settled across modules.
What the diary watches
Whether patient volumes and reimbursement rates in its main dialysis markets hold steady, since both feed directly into how the care-delivery business performs.

Fresenius Medical Care Corporation (FMS) trades on US exchanges, classified under Healthcare.

The Closelooknet company score reads 52/100 composite (momentum 53, quality 36, valuation 82) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 4.01%, annual · buybacks 562 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What FMS pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.87 USD per share · a 4.01% yield on the 2026-11-03 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-11-03
  • Change on the year +7.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.82 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.87 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-05-22
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.82 USD (partial) · 2026: 0.87 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-05-23
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 406 m USD 37% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 562 m USD 4.6% of today's market value
  • Share count −0.8% in FY2025
  • Capital returned 968 m USD · 57% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-11-04

Quick answers

What is Fresenius Medical Care Corporation (FMS)?

Fresenius Medical Care Corporation trades as FMS on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Healthcare in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-11-04.

Is FMS in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Fresenius Medical Care Corporation is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-11-04.

What is Fresenius Medical Care Corporation's Closelooknet composite score?

52 out of 100, with momentum 53, quality 36 and valuation 82 sub-scores, as of 2026-11-04. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does FMS trade against its moving averages?

Fresenius Medical Care Corporation trades 2.7% below its 50-day and 3.4% below its 200-day moving average (0.9% below its 20-day). As of 2026-11-03 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Fresenius Medical Care Corporation compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Medical Care Facilities · US), Fresenius Medical Care Corporation (FMS) sits 17.8% below its 52-week high, 2.7% below its 50-day average; PACS Group, Inc. (PACS) is 7.3% below, The Ensign Group Inc (ENSG) is 16.4% below, Surgery Partners Inc (SGRY) is 1.0% below, as of 2026-11-03. Put any of them next to FMS in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Fresenius Medical Care Corporation trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Fresenius Medical Care Corporation had a beta of 0.38 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 30% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.85% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. As of 2026-11-03; The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Fresenius Medical Care Corporation do?

Fresenius Medical Care runs dialysis clinics and related services for people with kidney disease, treating patients across outpatient centres and under hospital contracts. It also designs and supplies the machines, solutions and consumables those clinics use, spanning haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis equipment, concentrates, bloodlines and water-treatment systems. The group organises this work into a care-delivery arm that treats patients and a care-enablement arm that makes the products, and it is based in Bad Homburg, Germany. There is no peer group set for it in our records; the comparison the market draws is with DaVita, the other large dialysis-services operator. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Where does Fresenius Medical Care Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

Fresenius Medical Care carries no seat in our index and sits outside the AI build-out layers the diary tracks; it belongs to the healthcare sector, within medical care facilities, as a dialysis-services and equipment name rather than a supplier to the compute stack. It carries a Closelooknet score, but only one module has been scored so far, so the read is still being built rather than settled across modules. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Does Fresenius Medical Care Corporation pay a dividend?

Fresenius Medical Care Corporation has paid 0.87 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 4.01% on the 2026-11-03 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.87 USD on 2026-05-22. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 406 m USD in dividends and bought back 562 m USD of its own shares, 57% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 0.8% over the fiscal year. As of 2026-11-03; the "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

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