THRL vs. AGR, PHP, IHR, LABS, MXF, IWG, DLN, SRE, GPOR, and BYG
Should you be buying Target Healthcare REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Target Healthcare REIT include Assura (AGR), Primary Health Properties (PHP), Impact Healthcare REIT (IHR), Life Science REIT (LABS), Medicx Fund (MXF), IWG (IWG), Derwent London (DLN), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), Great Portland Estates (GPOR), and Big Yellow Group (BYG). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Target Healthcare REIT vs. Its Competitors
Assura (LON:AGR) and Target Healthcare REIT (LON:THRL) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends and risk.
Target Healthcare REIT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Assura. Assura is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Target Healthcare REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Assura pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Target Healthcare REIT pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Assura pays out -286.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Target Healthcare REIT pays out 50.3% 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. Assura is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Target Healthcare REIT has a net margin of 104.99% compared to Assura's net margin of -18.09%. Target Healthcare REIT's return on equity of 10.78% beat Assura's return on equity.
Assura has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Target Healthcare REIT has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Assura currently has a consensus target price of GBX 51, indicating a potential upside of 3.69%. Given Assura's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Assura is more favorable than Target Healthcare REIT.
In the previous week, Assura had 6 more articles in the media than Target Healthcare REIT. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Assura and 1 mentions for Target Healthcare REIT. Assura's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Target Healthcare REIT's score of 0.64 indicating that Assura is being referred to more favorably in the media.
73.7% of Assura shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.4% of Target Healthcare REIT shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of Assura shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Target Healthcare REIT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Assura beats Target Healthcare REIT on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:THRL) was last updated on 8/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
