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AURA

Aura Investments TASE:AURA Stock Report

Last Price

₪6.21

Market Cap

₪1.6b

7D

11.7%

1Y

88.8%

Updated

22 Jun, 2022

Data

Company Financials
AURA fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation2/6
Future Growth0/6
Past Performance4/6
Financial Health4/6
Dividends0/6

AURA Stock Overview

Aura Investments Ltd. engages in the planning and establishing of real estate projects in Israel.

Rewards

Trading at 97.6% below our estimate of its fair value

Earnings grew by 177.3% over the past year

Risk Analysis

Interest payments are not well covered by earnings

Large one-off items impacting financial results

Shareholders have been diluted in the past year


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Price History & Performance

Summary of all time highs, changes and price drops for Aura Investments
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price₪6.21
52 Week High₪8.50
52 Week Low₪2.79
Beta1.21
1 Month Change6.37%
3 Month Change-16.17%
1 Year Change88.82%
3 Year Change197.65%
5 Year Change135.93%
Change since IPO-99.93%

Recent News & Updates

Jun 23
We Ran A Stock Scan For Earnings Growth And Aura Investments (TLV:AURA) Passed With Ease

We Ran A Stock Scan For Earnings Growth And Aura Investments (TLV:AURA) Passed With Ease

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Shareholder Returns

AURAIL Real EstateIL Market
7D11.7%9.5%4.6%
1Y88.8%6.9%8.0%

Return vs Industry: AURA exceeded the IL Real Estate industry which returned 3% over the past year.

Return vs Market: AURA exceeded the IL Market which returned 7.1% over the past year.

Price Volatility

Is AURA's price volatile compared to industry and market?
AURA volatility
AURA Average Weekly Movement6.7%
Real Estate Industry Average Movement6.1%
Market Average Movement5.7%
10% most volatile stocks in IL Market8.8%
10% least volatile stocks in IL Market3.7%

Stable Share Price: AURA is not significantly more volatile than the rest of IL stocks over the past 3 months, typically moving +/- 7% a week.

Volatility Over Time: AURA's weekly volatility (7%) has been stable over the past year.

About the Company

FoundedEmployeesCEOWebsite
199240Jacob Atrakchihttps://www.auraisrael.co.il

Aura Investments Ltd. engages in the planning and establishing of real estate projects in Israel. It builds residential projects; and develops urban renewal projects. The company was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Aura Investments Fundamentals Summary

How do Aura Investments's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
AURA fundamental statistics
Market Cap₪1.59b
Earnings (TTM)₪150.50m
Revenue (TTM)₪905.33m

10.6x

P/E Ratio

1.8x

P/S Ratio

Is AURA overvalued?

See Fair Value and valuation analysis

Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report
AURA income statement (TTM)
Revenue₪905.33m
Cost of Revenue₪766.18m
Gross Profit₪139.15m
Other Expenses-₪11.35m
Earnings₪150.50m

Last Reported Earnings

Mar 31, 2022

Next Earnings Date

n/a

Earnings per share (EPS)0.59
Gross Margin15.37%
Net Profit Margin16.62%
Debt/Equity Ratio138.8%

How did AURA perform over the long term?

See historical performance and comparison

Dividends

0.5%

Current Dividend Yield

5%

Payout Ratio
We’ve recently updated our valuation analysis.

Valuation

Is AURA undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

2/6

Valuation Score 2/6

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Peers

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Industry

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • PEG Ratio

Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for AURA?

Other financial metrics that can be useful for relative valuation.

AURA key valuation metrics and ratios. From Price to Earnings, Price to Sales and Price to Book to Price to Earnings Growth Ratio, Enterprise Value and EBITDA.
Key Statistics
Enterprise Value/Revenue2.6x
Enterprise Value/EBITDA24x
PEG Ration/a

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Peers

How does AURA's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

AURA PE Ratio vs Peers
The above table shows the PE ratio for AURA vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyPEEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average7.3x

Price-To-Earnings vs Peers: AURA is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (10.6x) compared to the peer average (7.3x).

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Industry

How does AURA's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the Israeli Real Estate Industry?

Price-To-Earnings vs Industry: AURA is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (10.6x) compared to the IL Real Estate industry average (7.5x)

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is AURA's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

AURA PE Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PE Ratio10.6x
Fair PE Ration/a

Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate AURA's Price-To-Earnings Fair Ratio for valuation analysis.

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of AURA when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: AURA (₪6.21) is trading below our estimate of fair value (₪255.26)

Significantly Below Fair Value: AURA is trading below fair value by more than 20%.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

PEG Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate AURA's PEG Ratio to determine if it is good value.

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Future Growth

How is Aura Investments forecast to perform in the next 1 to 3 years based on estimates from 0 analysts?

Future Growth Score

0/6

Future Growth Score 0/6

  • Earnings vs Savings Rate

  • Earnings vs Market

  • High Growth Earnings

  • Revenue vs Market

  • High Growth Revenue

  • Future ROE

12.6%

Forecasted Real Estate industry annual growth in earnings

In this section we usually present revenue and earnings growth projections based on the consensus estimates of professional analysts to help investors understand the company’s ability to generate profit. But as Aura Investments has not provided enough past data and has no analyst forecast, its future earnings cannot be reliably calculated by extrapolating past data or using analyst predictions.

This is quite a rare situation as 97% of companies covered by SimplyWall St do have past financial data.

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Past Performance

How has Aura Investments performed over the past 5 years?

Past Performance Score

4/6

Past Performance Score 4/6

  • Quality Earnings

  • Growing Profit Margin

  • Earnings Trend

  • Accelerating Growth

  • Earnings vs Industry

  • High ROE

69.5%

Historical annual earnings growth

Earnings and Revenue History

Quality Earnings: AURA has a large one-off gain of ₪108.0M impacting its March 31 2022 financial results.

Growing Profit Margin: AURA's current net profit margins (16.6%) are higher than last year (5%).

Past Earnings Growth Analysis

Earnings Trend: AURA's earnings have grown significantly by 69.5% per year over the past 5 years.

Accelerating Growth: AURA's earnings growth over the past year (177.3%) exceeds its 5-year average (69.5% per year).

Earnings vs Industry: AURA earnings growth over the past year (177.3%) exceeded the Real Estate industry 139.6%.

Return on Equity

High ROE: Whilst AURA's Return on Equity (25.67%) is high, this metric is skewed due to their high level of debt.

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Financial Health

How is Aura Investments's financial position?

Financial Health Score

4/6

Financial Health Score 4/6

  • Short Term Liabilities

  • Long Term Liabilities

  • Debt Level

  • Reducing Debt

  • Debt Coverage

  • Interest Coverage

Financial Position Analysis

Short Term Liabilities: AURA's short term assets (₪1.8B) exceed its short term liabilities (₪1.4B).

Long Term Liabilities: AURA's short term assets (₪1.8B) exceed its long term liabilities (₪48.1M).

Debt to Equity History and Analysis

Debt Level: AURA's net debt to equity ratio (125.8%) is considered high.

Reducing Debt: AURA's debt to equity ratio has reduced from 375.4% to 138.8% over the past 5 years.

Debt Coverage: AURA's debt is well covered by operating cash flow (41.5%).

Interest Coverage: AURA's interest payments on its debt are not well covered by EBIT (2.5x coverage).

Balance Sheet

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Dividend

What is Aura Investments's current dividend yield, its reliability and sustainability?

Dividend Score

0/6

Dividend Score 0/6

  • Notable Dividend

  • High Dividend

  • Stable Dividend

  • Growing Dividend

  • Earnings Coverage

  • Future Dividend Coverage

0.50%

Current Dividend Yield

Dividend Yield vs Market

Notable Dividend: AURA's dividend (0.5%) isn’t notable compared to the bottom 25% of dividend payers in the IL market (2.1%).

High Dividend: AURA's dividend (0.5%) is low compared to the top 25% of dividend payers in the IL market (6.35%).

Stability and Growth of Payments

Stable Dividend: AURA is not paying a notable dividend for the IL market, therefore no need to check if payments are stable.

Growing Dividend: AURA is not paying a notable dividend for the IL market, therefore no need to check if payments are increasing.

Earnings Payout to Shareholders

Earnings Coverage: AURA is not paying a notable dividend for the IL market.

Cash Payout to Shareholders

Cash Flow Coverage: AURA is not paying a notable dividend for the IL market.

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Management

How experienced are the management team and are they aligned to shareholders interests?

5.8yrs

Average board tenure

CEO

Jacob Atrakchi (56 yo)

10.08yrs

Tenure

₪3,000,000

Compensation

Mr. Jacob Atrakchi, Esq. has been Chief Executive Officer of Aura Investments Ltd. since May 23, 2012. Mr. Atrakchi served as Chief Executive Officer of Aura Israel – Initiating & Investments Ltd.from 200...

Board Members

Experienced Board: AURA's board of directors are considered experienced (5.8 years average tenure).

Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have been diluted in the past year, with total shares outstanding growing by 5.4%.

Top Shareholders

Company Information

Aura Investments Ltd.'s employee growth, exchange listings and data sources

Key Information

  • Name: Aura Investments Ltd.
  • Ticker: AURA
  • Exchange: TASE
  • Founded: 1992
  • Industry: Real Estate Operating Companies
  • Sector: Real Estate
  • Implied Market Cap: ₪1.589b
  • Shares outstanding: 255.76m
  • Website: https://www.auraisrael.co.il

Number of Employees

Location

  • Aura Investments Ltd.
  • Azrieli Tower 3
  • 132 Menachem Begin Road
  • Tel Aviv
  • 67023
  • Israel

Listings

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

All financial data provided by Standard & Poor's Capital IQ.
DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2022/06/22 00:00
End of Day Share Price2022/06/22 00:00
Earnings2022/03/31
Annual Earnings2021/12/31


Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.