Key Points
- Insider purchase: Celia Baxter bought 3,719 Volution Group shares on November 11 at an average price of GBX 628, spending £23,355.32.
- FAN opened at GBX 638 and trades near its 50/200-day averages (~GBX 642/628); the stock has a £1.26bn market cap, a PE of 30.8, and a Moderate Buy consensus with a mean price target of GBX 719 after several recent upgrades.
Volution Group plc (LON:FAN - Get Free Report) insider Celia Baxter purchased 3,719 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, November 11th. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 628 per share, with a total value of £23,355.32.
Volution Group Stock Performance
FAN stock opened at GBX 638 on Thursday. The company has a 50 day moving average price of GBX 642.23 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 627.98. Volution Group plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 451.50 and a fifty-two week high of GBX 720. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 34.97, a current ratio of 1.28 and a quick ratio of 0.98. The stock has a market capitalization of £1.26 billion, a PE ratio of 30.82 and a beta of 1.36.
Volution Group (LON:FAN - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October 9th. The company reported GBX 33.10 EPS for the quarter. Volution Group had a return on equity of 17.78% and a net margin of 12.31%. Analysts forecast that Volution Group plc will post 30.0441826 EPS for the current year.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
A number of brokerages recently commented on FAN. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft lifted their price objective on Volution Group from GBX 600 to GBX 680 and gave the stock a "hold" rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 14th. Peel Hunt reiterated a "buy" rating and set a GBX 625 price target on shares of Volution Group in a research report on Friday, October 10th. Royal Bank Of Canada boosted their price target on shares of Volution Group from GBX 700 to GBX 740 and gave the stock an "outperform" rating in a research note on Thursday, July 24th. Berenberg Bank increased their price objective on shares of Volution Group from GBX 720 to GBX 730 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, October 9th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group lifted their target price on shares of Volution Group from GBX 780 to GBX 820 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a report on Friday, October 10th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and one has given a Hold rating to the company's stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus price target of GBX 719.
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Volution Group plc (LSE: FAN) is a leading supplier of ventilation products to the residential and commercial construction markets in the UK, the Nordics, Central Europe and Australasia.
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