Assura (OTCMKTS:ARSSF) and Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) Critical Survey

Assura (OTCMKTS:ARSSF) and Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) are both real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Assura and Community Healthcare Trust, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Assura	0	0	0	0	N/A
Community Healthcare Trust	0	2	1	0	2.33

Community Healthcare Trust has a consensus target price of $20.75, suggesting a potential upside of 17.76%. Given Community Healthcare Trust’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Community Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Assura.

Profitability

This table compares Assura and Community Healthcare Trust’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Assura	N/A	N/A	N/A
Community Healthcare Trust	1.13%	0.25%	0.13%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

87.8% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Assura and Community Healthcare Trust”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Assura	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Community Healthcare Trust	$114.71 million	4.26	$7.71 million	$0.64	27.53

Community Healthcare Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Assura.

Summary

Community Healthcare Trust beats Assura on 8 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Assura

Assura plc is a national healthcare premises specialist and UK REIT based in Altrincham, UK – caring for more than 600 primary healthcare buildings, from which over six million patients are served. A constituent of the FTSE 250 and the EPRA indices, as at 30 September 2023, Assura's portfolio was valued at £2.7 billion. At Assura, we BUILD for health. Assura builds better spaces for people and places, invests in skills and inspires new ways of working, and unlocks the power of design and innovation to deliver lasting impact for communities – aiming for six million people to have benefitted from improvements to and through its healthcare buildings by 2026. Assura is leading for a sustainable future, targeting net zero carbon across its portfolio by 2040.

About Community Healthcare Trust

Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated (the Company”, we”, our”) was organized in the State of Maryland on March 28, 2014. The Company is a fully-integrated healthcare real estate company that owns and acquires real estate properties that are leased to hospitals, doctors, healthcare systems or other healthcare service providers. As of March 31, 2024, the Company had investments of approximately $1.1 billion in 197 real estate properties (including a portion of one property accounted for as a sales-type lease with a gross amount totaling approximately $3.0 million and two properties classified as an asset held for sale with an aggregate amount totaling approximately $7.5 million. The properties are located in 35 states, totaling approximately 4.4 million square feet in the aggregate and were approximately 92.3% leased, excluding real estate assets held for sale, at March 31, 2024 with a weighted average remaining lease term of approximately 6.9 years.