Saturday, January 17, 2009

SRZ: Strong Buy: ASHA (American Senior Housing Association) Top 50

According to American Senior Housing Association (ASHA)

SRZ is among the Top ranked (Rank 4) companies for Ownership of Senior Housing (Higher than Ventas: Rank 5) &
SRZ is among the top ranked companies for Management of Senior Housing Properties (Rank 2nd behind BKD: Ranked 1st)

Ownership :No of Units (Rank for 2008)
SRZ: 25,904 (Rank 4)
Ventas: 24,110 (Rank 5)
BKD: 18,777 (Rank 8)

I can understand the higher ranking for SRZ as it does not pay any dividents (unlike Ventas an REIT ) and is funneling all the money back into property acquisition/creation.. Also it is one of the largest property builders in senior housing space.

Managed Properties: No of Managed Units (Rank for 2007):
BKD: 51638 (Rank 1)
SRZ: 45932(Rank 2)
Emeritus: 16463 (Rank 7)

Surprisingly BKD is more of a management company than SRZ and BKD owns less no of units and has a higher debt burden. My understanding till now was SRZ was more of a management company and rest of the senior living companies were intent on buying the property while SRZ was only into management of properties.

SRZ (Market Cap:64.7 Million) owns more property than BKD (Market Cap: 616 Million) and SRZ has less Debt and higher Brand Recall. (SRZ is a no brainer value Buy)

Ventas (Market Cap:4.2 Billion but Ventas has other non senior housing assets such as hospitals so actually not comparable)

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Please download the American Senior Housing Asociation Report of Top 50 for 2008 Here

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