Stock Research: Life Healthcare Group

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Life Healthcare Group

JSE:LHC ZAE000145892
14
  • Value
    20
  • Growth
    9
  • Safety
    Safety
    97
  • Combined
    25
  • Sentiment
    27
  • 360° View
    360° View
    14
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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 14 (better than 14% 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 97, 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 97% of alternative stocks in the same industry. All other consolidated ranks are below average. The consolidated Growth Rank has a low rank of 9, 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 20, meaning the company has a riskier financing structure than 80% 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 73% of alternative investment opportunities, reflected in the consolidated Sentiment Rank of 27. ...read more

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Last update: 2-Oct-2025.

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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Value
97 81 84 91
Growth
9 45 39 85
Safety
Safety
20 45 10 14
Sentiment
27 79 16 86
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14 80 17 99
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Analyst Opinions
19 41 27 44
Opinions Change
50 50 5 30
Pro Holdings
n/a 100 19 94
Market Pulse
90 88 84 73
Sentiment
27 79 16 86
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Value
97 81 84 91
Growth
9 45 39 85
Safety Safety
20 45 10 14
Combined
25 72 37 90
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Price vs. Sales (P/S)
91 74 74 69
Price vs. Earnings (P/E)
92 81 82 89
Price vs. Book (P/B)
76 67 76 82
Dividend Yield
94 88 89 92
Value
97 81 84 91
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Revenue Growth
22 6 15 27
Profit Growth
10 6 58 63
Capital Growth
37 71 56 85
Stock Returns
37 97 49 79
Growth
9 45 39 85
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Leverage
38 36 34 22
Refinancing
5 49 7 9
Liquidity
45 50 37 39
Safety Safety
20 45 10 14

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