Assura (LON:AGR) Shares Up 11.6% – Time to Buy?

Assura Plc (LON:AGR)’s share price rose 11.6% during trading on Monday . The company traded as high as GBX 46.20 ($0.58) and last traded at GBX 43.52 ($0.55). Approximately 212,891,641 shares traded hands during trading, an increase of 1,382% from the average daily volume of 14,366,552 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 39 ($0.49).

Assura Trading Up 11.7 %

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 85.05, a current ratio of 0.89 and a quick ratio of 2.84. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of GBX 37.60 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 39.70. The stock has a market cap of £1.42 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -41.62, a P/E/G ratio of 3.60 and a beta of 0.37.

Assura (LON:AGR) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November 14th. The real estate investment trust reported GBX 1.70 ($0.02) earnings per share for the quarter. Assura had a negative net margin of 18.09% and a negative return on equity of 1.92%. Equities analysts forecast that Assura Plc will post 3.5830389 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Assura Announces Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, January 15th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 12th were issued a GBX 0.84 ($0.01) dividend. This represents a yield of 2.12%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, December 12th. Assura’s dividend payout ratio is currently -286.76%.

Assura Company Profile

Assura plc is a specialist healthcare property investor and developer. We enable better health outcomes through our portfolio of more than 600 healthcare buildings across the UK and Ireland, from which over six million patients are served.

We BUILD for health, having developed over 100 new healthcare buildings in our history, and at the heart of our strategy sits The Bigger Picture; Healthy Environment (E), Healthy Communities (S), Healthy Business (G).

Assura plc achieved B Corp certification in July 2024 – the first FTSE 250 business to do so.