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Life Healthcare Group

JNB:LHC ZAE000145892
22
  • Value
    95
  • Growth
    35
  • Safety
    Safety
    22
  • Combined
    43
  • Sentiment
    26
  • 360° View
    360° View
    22
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Company Description

Life Healthcare Group is a diversified healthcare provider. It offers acute care and complementary services, including emergency care, mental health, acute rehabilitation, renal dialysis, oncology, diagnostics, and nuclear medicine. The company operates in Southern Africa and internationally, focusing on radiopharmaceutical products through Life Molecular Imaging. In the last fiscal year, the company had a market cap of $1171 million, profits of $532 million, revenue of $1479 million, and 16246 employees.

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ANALYSIS: With an Obermatt 360° View of 22 (better than 22% compared with alternatives), overall professional sentiment and financial characteristics for the stock Life Healthcare Group are critical, mostly below average. The 360° View is based on consolidating four consolidated indicators, with three out of four indicators below average for Life Healthcare Group. Only the consolidated Value Rank has an attractive rank of 95, which means that the share price of Life Healthcare Group is on the lower side compared with the typical size in indicators such as revenues, profits, and invested capital. This means that the stock price is lower than for 95% of alternative stocks in the same industry. All other consolidated ranks are below average. The consolidated Growth Rank has a low rank of 35, which means that the company exhibits below-average growth momentum when looking at financial metrics such as revenue, profit, and invested capital growth as well as stock returns. The consolidated Safety Rank has a riskier rank of 22, meaning the company has a riskier financing structure than 78% comparable companies when looking at the amount of its debt, its refinancing requirements, and its ability to service debt. Finally, professionals are more pessimistic about the stock than for 74% of alternative investment opportunities, reflected in the consolidated Sentiment Rank of 26. ...read more

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Strongest Rank Refinancing
Weakest Rank Value
Country South Africa
Industry Health Care Facilities
Size Large
Website lifehealthcare.co.za
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The higher the 360° View, the better the stock performed against its peers, considering all metrics. The 360° View represents an average of the other 5 ranks and is then scaled to a rank from 1 to 100. The shaded values are illustrative only.
Last update: 26-Mar-2026.

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Combined
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Value
95 81 84 91
Growth
35 45 39 85
Safety
Safety
22 45 10 14
Sentiment
26 79 16 86
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22 80 17 99
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Analyst Opinions
13 41 27 44
Opinions Change
50 50 5 30
Pro Holdings
n/a 100 19 94
Market Pulse
23 88 84 73
Sentiment
26 79 16 86
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Value
95 81 84 91
Growth
35 45 39 85
Safety Safety
22 45 10 14
Combined
43 72 37 90
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Price vs. Sales (P/S)
90 81 82 89
Price vs. Earnings (P/E)
87 74 74 69
Price vs. Book (P/B)
72 67 76 82
Dividend Yield
93 88 89 92
Value
95 81 84 91
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Revenue Growth
30 6 15 27
Profit Growth
63 6 58 63
Capital Growth
46 71 56 85
Stock Returns
51 97 49 79
Growth
35 45 39 85
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Leverage
47 36 34 22
Refinancing
6 49 7 9
Liquidity
46 50 37 39
Safety Safety
22 45 10 14

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The only strength is good value. All other factors (growth, safety, and sentiment) are below average. This stock is highly sensitive to a crisis and is not advisable. Avoid unless you have solid, independent reasons to believe a significant turnaround is imminent.

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The 360° View Rank indicates a company's overall performance across all major financial and non-financial metrics tracked by Obermatt. A 360° View Rank of 75 means the company is more well-rounded than 75% of similar companies. A high score indicates that the company is strong across the board; it is attractively priced, growing sustainably, financially stable, and well-regarded by the market. Learn more.

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