Assura (LON:AGR) Trading 18.1% Higher – Should You Buy?

Posted by Cheyenne Larson on Feb 17th, 2025

Assura Plc (LON:AGR – Get Free Report)’s share price traded up 18.1% during trading on Monday . The company traded as high as GBX 46.20 ($0.58) and last traded at GBX 46.04 ($0.58). 186,428,844 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 1,274% from the average session volume of 13,564,649 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 39 ($0.49).

Assura Trading Up 18.1 %

The company has a quick ratio of 2.84, a current ratio of 0.89 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 85.05. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 37.60 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 39.70. The company has a market cap of £1.50 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -44.01, a P/E/G ratio of 3.60 and a beta of 0.37.

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

Assura Announces Dividend

The company also recently declared a dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, January 15th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 12th were paid a dividend of GBX 0.84 ($0.01) per share. This represents a dividend yield of 2.12%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, December 12th. Assura’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently -286.76%.

About Assura

(Get Free Report)

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.