Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. (SBRA) Stock Price & How to Invest

Sabra Health Care REIT is a self-managed real estate investment trust that owns and invests in healthcare property, including skilled nursing and transitional care facilities, managed senior housing communities, behavioral health, and specialty hospitals, spread across the United States and Canada. Its portfolio mixes triple-net leases (where operators pay Sabra fixed rent) with managed senior housing under RIDEA-style structures that give Sabra direct exposure to the operating income of those communities, so a chunk of its results moves with occupancy and rate trends in senior living.

The investment picture centers on income and demographics. Sabra pays a quarterly dividend of about $0.30 per share (roughly a 6% yield at a mid-teens stock price) and its results are recovering as senior housing occupancy and rates climb off pandemic lows, with same-property managed senior housing cash NOI up double digits year over year in early 2026. Against that, the company carries meaningful leverage and depends on the financial health of its operators, so it trades more like a yield-plus-modest-growth vehicle than a high-growth name.

Sabra depends heavily on the financial health of its tenant operators, and skilled nursing operators in particular run on thin margins tied to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, so rate changes or operator distress can pressure rent collection. The re-tenanting of properties (such as the Avamere-to-Cascadia transition) carries execution risk during handover. As a REIT it is sensitive to interest rates, which affect both its borrowing costs and how income investors value its yield. Leverage remains meaningful for a healthcare landlord, and the dividend, while covered by cash flow today, depends on continued occupancy recovery. Competition from far larger peers for acquisitions can compress the yields Sabra earns on new deals.

A simple financial snapshot. These are approximations and refresh quarterly; for current figures see Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc.'s investor relations page or your broker.

• Market cap: ~$5.0B
• Revenue (TTM): ~$880M
• Normalized FFO/share (2026 guide): ~$1.53-$1.55
• Normalized AFFO/share (2026 guide): ~$1.59-$1.61
• Dividend yield: ~6%
• Net debt / EBITDA: ~4.8x

Sabra reported Q1 2026 revenue of about $222 million and normalized AFFO of roughly $0.39 per share, and management raised full-year 2026 guidance to call for mid-to-high single digit FFO and AFFO per share growth over 2025. On a REIT-appropriate basis the shares trade around 13 times forward FFO, which is a discount to larger senior-housing-focused peers. The quarterly dividend of about $0.30 represents a payout near 77% of normalized AFFO, leaving some cushion.

There are three common ways to get SBRA exposure. Buy shares (or fractional shares) directly at any major broker. Hold an ETF that includes it, which spreads the position across many companies. Or build it into a focused thematic basket, so SBRA sits alongside other stocks that express the same thesis.

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SBRA is an income-oriented, aging-demographics healthcare REIT whose story turns on senior housing recovery and tenant credit quality, so the yield comes packaged with operator and interest-rate risk.

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