Assura (LON:AGR) Sets New 52-Week High – Time to Buy?

Shares of Assura Plc (LON:AGR) hit a new 52-week high during trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as GBX 46.16 ($0.58) and last traded at GBX 46.08 ($0.58), with a volume of 184840844 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at GBX 39 ($0.49).

Assura Stock Performance

The company’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 37.66 and its 200 day moving average price is GBX 39.72. The company has a market cap of £1.42 billion, a PE ratio of -41.60, a P/E/G ratio of 3.60 and a beta of 0.37. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 85.05, a current ratio of 0.89 and a quick ratio of 2.84.

Assura Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, January 15th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 12th were issued a GBX 0.84 ($0.01) dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, December 12th. This represents a dividend yield of 2.12%. 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.