Key Points
- Insider purchase: Funding Circle insider Tony Nicol bought 1,314 shares on May 18 at an average price of GBX 137, totaling £1,800.18.
- Stock movement: Funding Circle shares were down 2.9% to GBX 132, trading near their 50-day and 200-day moving averages and within a 52-week range of GBX 104 to GBX 176.80.
- Analyst sentiment and fundamentals: Shore Capital Group upgraded the stock to Buy, and MarketBeat data shows an overall average rating of Buy. The company reported strong recent profitability, including a 21.54% return on equity and a 20.90% net margin.
Funding Circle Holdings plc (LON:FCH - Get Free Report) insider Tony Nicol acquired 1,314 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Monday, May 18th. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 137 per share, with a total value of £1,800.18.
Funding Circle Trading Down 2.9%
Shares of FCH stock opened at GBX 132 on Wednesday. Funding Circle Holdings plc has a 52-week low of GBX 104 and a 52-week high of GBX 176.80. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 119.79, a quick ratio of 3.33 and a current ratio of 1.70. The firm has a fifty day moving average of GBX 139.67 and a 200-day moving average of GBX 137.18. The stock has a market cap of £376.48 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.43 and a beta of 0.74.
Funding Circle (LON:FCH - Get Free Report) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, March 5th. The company reported GBX 14.60 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Funding Circle had a return on equity of 21.54% and a net margin of 20.90%. On average, equities research analysts forecast that Funding Circle Holdings plc will post 0.0797592 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
Separately, Shore Capital Group raised Funding Circle to a "buy" rating in a report on Tuesday, April 7th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of "Buy".
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