Medical Properties Trust (NYSE:MPT) and Assura (OTCMKTS:ARSSF) Critical Review

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Medical Properties Trust and Assura, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Medical Properties Trust	2	1	0	0	1.33
Assura	0	0	0	0	0.00

Medical Properties Trust presently has a consensus target price of $4.15, suggesting a potential upside of 2.72%. Given Medical Properties Trust’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Medical Properties Trust is more favorable than Assura.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Medical Properties Trust and Assura”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Medical Properties Trust	$972.02 million	2.48	-$277.05 million	($0.06)	-67.33
Assura	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Assura has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Medical Properties Trust.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

71.8% of Medical Properties Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Medical Properties Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Medical Properties Trust	-2.96%	-0.66%	-0.20%
Assura	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Medical Properties Trust beats Assura on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Medical Properties Trust

Medical Properties Trust, Inc. is a self-advised real estate investment trust formed to capitalize on the changing trends in healthcare delivery by acquiring and developing net-leased healthcare facilities. MPT’s financing model allows hospitals and other healthcare facilities to unlock the value of their underlying real estate in order to fund facility improvements, technology upgrades, staff additions and new construction. Facilities include acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals, and other medical and surgical facilities.

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.