Assura (LON:AGR) Hits New 52-Week Low – Here’s Why

Assura Plc (LON:AGR)’s stock price reached a new 52-week low during trading on Wednesday . The stock traded as low as GBX 36.78 ($0.46) and last traded at GBX 36.82 ($0.46), with a volume of 1627374 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at GBX 37.10 ($0.46).

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Separately, Berenberg Bank restated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 51 ($0.64) price objective on shares of Assura in a research note on Tuesday, September 17th.

Assura Price Performance

The firm has a market capitalization of £1.19 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -3,662.00, a PEG ratio of 3.60 and a beta of 0.37. The company has a current ratio of 0.89, a quick ratio of 2.84 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 85.04. The business has a 50-day moving average price of GBX 38.96 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 40.51.

Assura Announces Dividend

The business also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, January 15th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 12th will be paid a GBX 0.84 ($0.01) dividend. This represents a yield of 2.12%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 12th. Assura’s payout ratio is -30,000.00%.

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.