AGR vs. PHP, THRL, IHR, MXF, LAND, LMP, UTG, BLND, BBOX, and SHC
Should you be buying Assura stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Assura include Primary Health Properties (PHP), Target Healthcare REIT (THRL), Impact Healthcare REIT (IHR), Medicx Fund (MXF), Land Securities Group (LAND), LondonMetric Property (LMP), Unite Group (UTG), British Land (BLND), Tritax Big Box REIT (BBOX), and Shaftesbury Capital (SHC). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Assura (LON:AGR) and Primary Health Properties (LON:PHP) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Assura received 40 more outperform votes than Primary Health Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.40% of users gave Assura an outperform vote while only 62.03% of users gave Primary Health Properties an outperform vote.
Assura pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Primary Health Properties pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Assura pays out -30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Primary Health Properties pays out 35,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Primary Health Properties has a net margin of 16.08% compared to Assura's net margin of -18.25%. Primary Health Properties' return on equity of 1.88% beat Assura's return on equity.
Assura currently has a consensus target price of GBX 50.67, indicating a potential upside of 23.28%. Primary Health Properties has a consensus target price of GBX 104, indicating a potential upside of 11.53%. Given Assura's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Assura is more favorable than Primary Health Properties.
In the previous week, Assura had 5 more articles in the media than Primary Health Properties. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Assura and 1 mentions for Primary Health Properties. Assura's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Primary Health Properties' score of 0.37 indicating that Assura is being referred to more favorably in the media.
89.5% of Assura shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.0% of Primary Health Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Assura shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Primary Health Properties shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Assura has a beta of 0.3, suggesting that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Primary Health Properties has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Primary Health Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Assura. Assura is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Primary Health Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Assura and Primary Health Properties tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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