Healthcare Realty Trust (HR): Valuation Check After Cantor Backs Strategy and $1 Billion Asset Sale Plan
Healthcare Realty Trust (HR) is back in focus after Cantor Fitzgerald backed its ongoing strategic overhaul, highlighting that the REIT’s planned asset sales of more than 1 billion dollars align with falling cap rates in medical office deals.
See our latest analysis for Healthcare Realty Trust.
That backdrop helps explain why, even with the latest share price at $17.18 and a softer 1 month share price return, Healthcare Realty Trust still shows a positive year to date share price return and solid multi year total shareholder returns. This suggests momentum is rebuilding rather than breaking.
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Yet with shares still trading at a double digit discount to analyst targets and an even steeper gap to some intrinsic value estimates, investors now face a pivotal question: is Healthcare Realty Trust mispriced, or is the market already baking in a healthier future?
Most Popular Narrative: 11.9% Undervalued
With Healthcare Realty Trust last closing at $17.18 against a most popular fair value view of $19.50, the narrative leans toward gradual upside rather than a quick rerating.
Embedded value add opportunity in the lease up portfolio (targeting $50 million incremental NOI from increasing occupancy and rental rates through $300 million of internally funded capital projects) provides a clear path to outsized NOI and earnings expansion relative to current suppressed valuation.
Curious how shrinking share count, a turnaround in margins, and flat top line can still support a richer valuation? The narrative stitches those levers together in a way that challenges the headline forecasts and relies on a specific future earnings multiple to justify that higher fair value.
Result: Fair Value of $19.50 (UNDERVALUED)
Have a read of the narrative in full and understand what's behind the forecasts.
However, slower-than-expected lease-up progress or setbacks in shifting to a more operations-focused model could dilute those projected earnings gains.
Find out about the key risks to this Healthcare Realty Trust narrative.
Another View: Multiples Point to a Richer Price
While the narrative leans on upside to fair value, the current price to sales ratio of 5 times paints a tighter picture. HR trades richer than the wider North American Health Care REITs at 4.6 times, and even above its own fair ratio of 4.7 times. This hints at less room for error if execution slips.
See what the numbers say about this price — find out in our valuation breakdown.
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