Which franchisors run the widest margins?
Operating margin runs from -103.9% to 64.2%; the typical system reports 5.9%.
10 of 23 systems disclose this.
Where each of the 10 systems that disclose it sits
Each dot is a system. The rule is the middle value.
Seniors Helping Seniors runs a 64.2% operating margin — more than any other system here
Sorted highest to lowest. Hatched rows are filings that say nothing.
6 more systems' filings say nothing about this. All of them are named below.
›View data & method
10 of 23 systems disclose this. Figures are read from each system’s own 2026 franchise disclosure document. How this data is built
What the franchisor keeps from its revenue after the costs of running the business, before interest and tax.
›How to read it
Operating margin — What the franchisor keeps from its revenue after the costs of running the business, before interest and tax.
Higher means more of each dollar of revenue is left over. A negative margin means the company spent more than it took in.
It describes the franchisor company, not any owner's business.
Every system on this measure
Sort any column. A blank means the filing does not disclose it, never zero.
| System | Operating margin | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A Place At Home | Not disclosed in the 2026 FDD | 50 | Emerging |
| Amada Senior Care | Not disclosed in the 2026 FDD | 261 | Scaling |
| Assisting Hands Home Care | 23.1% | 232 | Scaling |
| BrightStar Care | Not disclosed in the 2026 FDD | 396 | Scaling |
| CareBuilders at Home | Not disclosed in the 2026 FDD | 28 | Early |
| ComForCare | Not disclosed in the 2026 FDD | 271 | Scaling |
| Comfort Keepers | 51.6% | 619 | Scaling |
| Executive Home Care | Not disclosed in the 2026 FDD | 79 | Emerging |
| FirstLight Home Care | Not disclosed in the 2026 FDD | 238 | Scaling |
| Griswold | 10.3% | 198 | Scaling |
| Hallmark Homecare | -18.5% | 59 | Emerging |
| Home Instead | 53.8% | 626 | Mature |
| Home Matters Caregiving | -7.6% | 31 | Emerging |
| HomeCare Advocacy Network | -103.9% | 7 | Early |
| Homewatch CareGivers | Not disclosed in the 2026 FDD | 260 | Scaling |
| HomeWell Care Services | Not disclosed in the 2026 FDD | 201 | Scaling |
| Nurse Next Door | Not disclosed in the 2026 FDD | 71 | Emerging |
| One You Love Homecare | Not disclosed in the 2026 FDD | 24 | Early |
| Right at Home | Not disclosed in the 2026 FDD | 566 | Scaling |
| Senior Helpers | -2.0% | 394 | Scaling |
| Seniors Helping Seniors | 64.2% | 224 | Scaling |
| SYNERGY HomeCare | 9.3% | 626 | Scaling |
| Visiting Angels | 2.4% | 541 | Mature |
HomecareHQ analysis of 23 home care franchise systems’ 2026 disclosure documents. Listed alphabetically until you sort it.
Measured differently, so shown on their own
One system's figure is drawn from a parent company's audited statements rather than the franchisor's own, so it describes a different business. It is shown on its own, with the entity named.
- Comfort Keepers51.6%CK Franchising, Inc. and SDX Home Care Operations, LLC dba Comfort Keepers
12 of 23 filings do not disclose this
Not disclosed by A Place At Home, Amada Senior Care, BrightStar Care, CareBuilders at Home, ComForCare, Executive Home Care, FirstLight Home Care, Homewatch CareGivers, HomeWell Care Services, Nurse Next Door, One You Love Homecare, Right at Home. A blank in the table means the filing is silent. It is never a zero.
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How to read this data
- These are each system's own disclosures, not our opinion of them. Every number on this page comes out of a filing the system published itself. Where we calculate something — an effective royalty, a fee load, a growth rate — we show the inputs and the formula alongside it.
- A blank means the filing did not say, never zero. Systems disclose different things, so most measures are filed by some of the field and not all of it. Where a figure rests on part of the field, we say how much of it.
- Nothing here is a ranking. Most of these measures have no better direction: a lower royalty is not automatically a better system, and a bigger territory is not automatically a better deal. We show where a system sits and leave the judgement to you.
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