Diversicare Healthcare Services Trending Dangerously Low
Shareholders of Diversicare Healthcare Services have been pummeled recently, with the share price down about 65% in the past 12 months, and down 40% since July 1. Not what shareholders want to see, especially with the markets as strong as they have been (with the frequent hiccups, of course). The company is the smallest of the publicly traded skilled nursing companies, with 72 SNFs and 8,214 beds in operation as of June 30 plus an additional 429 assisted living and personal care beds. But to report adjusted EBITDA of just $600,000 in the second quarter was, well, just too much, and the news sent the price diving. Year-over-year skilled nursing occupancy declined by 130 basis points to... Read More »
Blueprint’s Latest Transaction Trio
It’s proving to be a banner year for Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, which has already announced 63 transactions closed, and counting. That not only beats Blueprint’s 2017 total of 53 transactions but is just one off of the previous record-high (Marcus & Millichap’s 64 transactions closed in 2015), according to our yearly broker rankings. We still don’t know the final count, but after just five years in business, that is an impressive rise. The last three deals saw seven more properties sold on the year. First, Ben Firestone and Michael Segal helped Diversicare Healthcare Services sell three skilled nursing facilities in Kentucky for $18.7 million, or $74,200 per bed.... Read More »
Diversicare Divests Three Kentucky Properties
After a “challenging quarter” when Diversicare Healthcare Services reported a net loss of $7.4 million, (compared with a $600,000 loss last third quarter), a drop in average occupancy to 79.3% (down from 80.1%) a $6.4 million contingent liability fund regarding potential false claims violations, AND the departure of their CEO Kelly Gill, the company completed the sale of three skilled nursing facilities in Kentucky earlier this month. As required by bank agreements, the company used the net proceeds to entirely pay off the associated indebtedness and are probably pretty happy to move on and concentrate on bigger problems. The facilities in question were in Fulton (60 beds), Glasgow (94... Read More »Senior Care Stocks Remain in Doldrums
Seniors housing and care stocks remain in the dumps. There has been no Trump bump for them, as the rest of the market is up 16% since the beginning of this year. We should be only half as lucky. One would think that the skilled nursing dominated companies would have been the hardest hit, given all the talk of Medicaid block grants and census declines. But through mid-October, two of them have actually posted gains so far. Diversicare Healthcare Services is up 11% and The Ensign Group has eked out a small 2.2% gain so far this year. Meanwhile, National HealthCare Corporation has dropped nearly 15% this year, and Genesis HealthCare has plunged more than 75% and has settled in around $1.00... Read More »