Critical Comparison: Assura (OTCMKTS:ARSSF) vs. Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE:OHI)

Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE:OHI) and Assura (OTCMKTS:ARSSF) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Omega Healthcare Investors and Assura, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Omega Healthcare Investors	2	7	6	0	2.27
Assura	0	0	0	0	0.00

Omega Healthcare Investors currently has a consensus price target of $49.21, suggesting a potential upside of 5.47%. Given Omega Healthcare Investors’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Omega Healthcare Investors is more favorable than Assura.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Omega Healthcare Investors	66.96%	15.76%	8.40%
Assura	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Omega Healthcare Investors and Assura”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Omega Healthcare Investors	$1.19 billion	11.88	$572.03 million	$2.80	16.66
Assura	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Omega Healthcare Investors has higher revenue and earnings than Assura.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

65.2% of Omega Healthcare Investors shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Omega Healthcare Investors shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Omega Healthcare Investors beats Assura on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Omega Healthcare Investors

Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. engages in the provision of financing and capital to the long-term healthcare industry with a particular focus on skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, independent living facilities, rehabilitation and acute care facilities, and medical office buildings. The company was founded on March 31, 1992 and is headquartered in Hunt Valley, MD.

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.