AGR vs. PHP, THRL, IHR, SRE, HMSO, GPE, WKP, SUPR, SVS, and UKCM
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), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), Hammerson (HMSO), Great Portland Estates (GPE), Workspace Group (WKP), Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), Savills (SVS), and UK Commercial Property REIT (UKCM). 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 contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Assura pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Primary Health Properties pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Assura pays out -5,000.0% 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.
In the previous week, Primary Health Properties had 3 more articles in the media than Assura. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Primary Health Properties and 0 mentions for Assura. Primary Health Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Assura's score of 0.00 indicating that Primary Health Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Assura received 39 more outperform votes than Primary Health Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.34% of users gave Assura an outperform vote while only 62.03% of users gave Primary Health Properties an outperform vote.
Assura presently has a consensus price target of GBX 52, indicating a potential upside of 24.94%. Primary Health Properties has a consensus price target of GBX 102, indicating a potential upside of 7.99%. Given Assura's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Assura is more favorable than Primary Health Properties.
88.8% of Assura shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Primary Health Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Assura shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Primary Health Properties shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Assura has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Primary Health Properties has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Primary Health Properties has a net margin of 16.08% compared to Assura's net margin of -110.03%. Primary Health Properties' return on equity of 1.88% beat Assura's return on equity.
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
Primary Health Properties beats Assura on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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