Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) and Assura (OTCMKTS:ARSSF) Head to Head Comparison

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

Analyst Recommendations

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

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

Community Healthcare Trust currently has a consensus price target of $20.75, indicating a potential upside of 9.56%. Given Community Healthcare Trust’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Community Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Assura.

Profitability

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

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

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Community Healthcare Trust	$114.71 million	4.57	$7.71 million	$0.64	29.59
Assura	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Community Healthcare Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Assura.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

87.8% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

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

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.

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.