Key Points
- Insider purchase: Keller Group director Stephen King bought 6,500 shares at GBX 3,062 each, representing a total investment of approximately £199,030.
- Trading and results: Shares opened at GBX 3,074.91 and were down 0.2%. The company reported quarterly earnings of GBX 115.10 per share, with a 23.46% return on equity and a 4.62% net margin.
- Analyst view: Keller Group has a “Moderate Buy” consensus rating, with two analysts recommending Buy and two recommending Hold; the consensus price target is GBX 2,907.50.
Keller Group plc (LON:KLR - Get Free Report) insider Stephen King purchased 6,500 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, August 6th. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 3,062 per share, with a total value of £199,030.
Keller Group Trading Down 0.2%
Shares of KLR stock opened at GBX 3,074.91 on Friday. Keller Group plc has a 52-week low of GBX 1,238 and a 52-week high of GBX 3,518. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 48.39, a quick ratio of 1.17 and a current ratio of 1.44. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of GBX 2,889.53 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 2,360.45. The company has a market capitalization of £2.10 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.48, a PEG ratio of 2.86 and a beta of 1.03.
Keller Group (LON:KLR - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August 4th. The company reported GBX 115.10 EPS for the quarter. Keller Group had a return on equity of 23.46% and a net margin of 4.62%. Research analysts anticipate that Keller Group plc will post 192.5925926 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
A number of equities analysts recently weighed in on KLR shares. Peel Hunt reissued a "buy" rating and issued a GBX 2,910 price target on shares of Keller Group in a report on Tuesday. Royal Bank Of Canada lifted their price objective on shares of Keller Group from GBX 2,050 to GBX 2,270 and gave the stock a "sector perform" rating in a research report on Tuesday, April 14th. Berenberg Bank boosted their target price on shares of Keller Group from GBX 3,150 to GBX 3,300 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a research note on Tuesday. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reissued a "hold" rating and set a GBX 3,150 target price on shares of Keller Group in a research report on Wednesday. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus price target of GBX 2,907.50.
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About Keller Group
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Keller Group plc provides specialist geotechnical services in North America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa. The company offers ground improvement services, grouting, deep foundations, earth retention, marine, and instrumentation and monitoring services, as well as post-tension systems and industrial services. It also provides solutions, such as bearing capacity improvement, low carbon construction, containment, excavation support, stabilisation, marine structures, seepage control, slope stabilization, and monitoring.
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