Assura (LON:AGR) Shares Up 18.1% – Still a Buy?

Assura Plc (LON:AGR)’s share price shot up 18.1% 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 were traded during 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 Stock Performance

The stock’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 37.66 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 39.72. The company has a market cap 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 company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 85.05, a quick ratio of 2.84 and a current ratio of 0.89.

Assura Dividend Announcement

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

About Assura

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.