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Assura (AGR) Competitors

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GBX 47.48 +0.18 (+0.38%)
As of 10/3/2025

AGR vs. AEP, NFG, AT, PAM, UTL, BHI, GMP, CTP, ET, and PVR

Should you be buying Assura stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Assura include Anglo-Eastern Plantations (AEP), Next 15 Group (NFG), Ashtead Technology (AT), Premier Asset Management Group (PAM), UIL (UTL), BMO UK High Income Trust (BHI), Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust (GMP), Castleton Technology (CTP), Establishment Investment Trust (ET), and Providence Resources (PVR). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.

Assura vs. Its Competitors

Anglo-Eastern Plantations (LON:AEP) and Assura (LON:AGR) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.

Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a net margin of 17.74% compared to Assura's net margin of -18.09%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations' return on equity of 12.46% beat Assura's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Anglo-Eastern Plantations17.74% 12.46% 7.34%
Assura -18.09%-1.92%2.82%

Assura has a consensus price target of GBX 60, suggesting a potential upside of 26.37%. Given Assura's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Assura is more favorable than Anglo-Eastern Plantations.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Anglo-Eastern Plantations
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Assura
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

7.7% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.2% of Assura shares are held by institutional investors. 53.9% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Assura shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Anglo-Eastern Plantations has higher revenue and earnings than Assura. Anglo-Eastern Plantations is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Assura, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Anglo-Eastern Plantations£436.63M1.18£81.78M£223.745.88
Assura£183.80M8.39-£34.15M£0.05895.85

In the previous week, Anglo-Eastern Plantations and Anglo-Eastern Plantations both had 1 articles in the media. Assura's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Anglo-Eastern Plantations' score of 0.30 indicating that Assura is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Anglo-Eastern Plantations
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Assura
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays an annual dividend of GBX 51.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Assura pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays out 23.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Assura pays out 63.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Anglo-Eastern Plantations is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Assura has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Anglo-Eastern Plantations beats Assura on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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AGR vs. The Competition

MetricAssuraREIT IndustryReal Estate SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.54B£2.01B£1.77B£2.66B
Dividend Yield7.10%7.20%6.66%5.35%
P/E Ratio895.85113.8114.46400.09
Price / Sales8.39655.52566.6498,316.30
Price / Cash9.9349.2266.7927.90
Price / Book0.891.521.367.26
Net Income-£34.15M-£74.43M-£120.13M£5.88B
7 Day PerformanceN/A2.02%0.78%1.06%
1 Month Performance2.95%1.31%0.27%1.71%
1 Year Performance17.52%11.17%0.76%111.51%

Assura Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AGR
Assura
3.3903 of 5 stars
GBX 47.48
+0.4%
GBX 60
+26.4%
+17.5%£1.54B£183.80M895.8584
AEP
Anglo-Eastern Plantations
N/AGBX 1,355
-1.5%
N/A+97.1%£529.85M£436.63M605.6112,671News Coverage
High Trading Volume
NFG
Next 15 Group
3.2187 of 5 stars
GBX 370
-2.5%
GBX 498
+34.6%
-3.5%£373.42M£689.95M2,402.602,130
AT
Ashtead Technology
3.7812 of 5 stars
GBX 345
flat
GBX 646.25
+87.3%
-37.3%£273.61M£139.68M11.14559News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
PAM
Premier Asset Management Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£194.15M£53.26M16.386,286Gap Down
UTL
UIL
N/AGBX 143.50
-1.0%
N/A+50.7%£132.56M£22.15M1,283.54520Dividend Announcement
BHI
BMO UK High Income Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£99.66M£3.93M40.952,980Gap Up
GMP
Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust
N/AGBX 8.50
flat
N/AN/A£87.84M£540.33M29.23N/A
CTP
Castleton Technology
N/AN/AN/AN/A£77.42M£25.08M20.60169
ET
Establishment Investment Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£43.40M-£2.92M-10.9612,600Gap Up
PVR
Providence Resources
N/AN/AN/AN/A£34.84MN/A-3.192Gap Down

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This page (LON:AGR) was last updated on 10/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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