Assura (LON:AGR) Shares Up 11.6% - Here's What Happened

Assura Plc (LON:AGR - Get Free Report)'s stock price rose 11.6% on Monday . The stock traded as high as GBX 46.20 ($0.59) and last traded at GBX 43.52 ($0.55). Approximately 212,891,641 shares were traded 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 Price Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 85.05, a quick ratio of 2.84 and a current ratio of 0.89. The firm has a market cap of £1.42 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -41.55, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.60 and a beta of 0.37. The company's fifty day moving average is GBX 37.88 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 39.77.

Assura Announces Dividend

The company 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. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, December 12th. This represents a 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.