Assura (LON:AGR) Shares Up 17.5% – Here’s What Happened

Assura Plc (LON:AGR) shot up 17.5% during mid-day trading on Monday . The company traded as high as GBX 46.20 ($0.58) and last traded at GBX 45.83 ($0.58). 199,680,109 shares changed hands during trading, an increase of 1,330% from the average session volume of 13,966,203 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 39 ($0.49).

Assura Price Performance

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

Assura Announces Dividend

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