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

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Company snapshot — Fresenius Medical Care Corporation

FMS in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook 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 Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook 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.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’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.

Signals for this name

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

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

Peer group

Medical Care Facilities

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

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

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.93%, annual · last 0.87 USD on 2026-05-22

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 3.93% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-09-18
  • 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

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.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

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 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Fresenius Medical Care Corporation (FMS)?

Fresenius Medical Care Corporation trades as FMS on the US exchange (US) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is FMS in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Fresenius Medical Care Corporation is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does FMS trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -6.2% vs the 50-day and -1.5% vs the 200-day average, 16.4% below the 52-week high and +15.4% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 41 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

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.

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 Closelook score, but only one module has been scored so far, so the read is still being built rather than settled across modules.

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 3.93% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.87 USD on 2026-05-22. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for FMS, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Medical Care Facilities, then Healthcare. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.