Assura plc Announces Next Quarterly Interim Dividend

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Assura plc (LON:AGR), the UK’s leading primary care property investor and developer, has today announced that the next quarterly interim dividend of 0.82 pence per share will be paid on 10 April 2024 to shareholders on the register on 8 March 2024. The Ex-dividend Date will be 7 March 2024.

This interim dividend will be wholly Property Income Distribution (“PID”). Forms to register for gross PIDs are available on the Company’s website and must be returned to the Company registrars, Link Group at 10^th Floor, Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 4DL to arrive by 4.30pm on 26 March 2024. Please refer to Company’s website for more information.

Shareholders may choose for the dividend to be paid either as cash or to be settled in New Shares via the Scrip Dividend Alternative. The Scrip Dividend Alternative price is to be calculated using the average of the middle market quotations for an Ordinary Share, as derived from the Daily Official List of the London Stock Exchange, for the five consecutive business days commencing on the Ex-dividend Date and will be announced by the Company and detailed on the Company’s website on 14 March 2024.

Any Assura shareholders wishing to take up the Scrip Dividend Alternative, who have not already done so, will have until 4.30pm on 26 March 2024 either to return their completed mandate form to the Company registrars, Link Group at 10^th Floor, Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 4DL (in the case of shareholdings in certificated form) or to take the necessary action via the CREST system (in the case of shareholdings in uncertificated form).

The Circular concerning this Scrip Dividend Alternative is available on the Company’s website, www.assuraplc.com and is also available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

Assura plc is a national healthcare premises specialist and UK REIT based in Altrincham, UK – caring for more than 600 primary healthcare buildings, from which over six million patients are served.

A constituent of the FTSE 250 and the EPRA* indices, as at 30 September 2023, Assura’s portfolio was valued at £2.7 billion.