Key Points
- Insider buying: Penny James, an insider at St. James's Place, bought 8,418 shares on May 11 for about £99,500.76 at GBX 1,182 per share.
- Stock performance: Shares were up 2.1% and traded at GBX 1,207, with the company valued at about £6.16 billion. The stock remains below its 52-week high of GBX 1,575.50.
- Analyst sentiment: Analysts currently rate St. James's Place as a Moderate Buy, with five Buy ratings and two Hold ratings and an average target price of GBX 1,675.43.
St. James's Place plc (LON:STJ - Get Free Report) insider Penny James purchased 8,418 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction on Monday, May 11th. The shares were purchased at an average price of GBX 1,182 per share, for a total transaction of £99,500.76.
St. James's Place Trading Up 2.1%
STJ opened at GBX 1,207 on Tuesday. St. James's Place plc has a 52 week low of GBX 1,035 and a 52 week high of GBX 1,575.50. The company has a quick ratio of 3.85, a current ratio of 3.80 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 36.73. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 1,255.91 and a 200-day simple moving average of GBX 1,334.98. The firm has a market cap of £6.16 billion, a P/E ratio of 12.22, a P/E/G ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.01.
St. James's Place (LON:STJ - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The company reported GBX 99.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. St. James's Place had a net margin of 1.76% and a return on equity of 37.33%. On average, equities analysts expect that St. James's Place plc will post 67.9947461 earnings per share for the current year.
Analyst Ratings Changes
A number of analysts have recently weighed in on the company. UBS Group reaffirmed a "neutral" rating and set a GBX 1,475 price objective on shares of St. James's Place in a research report on Friday, January 16th. Jefferies Financial Group reissued a "buy" rating and set a GBX 1,700 target price on shares of St. James's Place in a research note on Wednesday, April 29th. Berenberg Bank reaffirmed a "buy" rating and issued a GBX 1,800 price target on shares of St. James's Place in a research report on Thursday, April 30th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. decreased their price objective on St. James's Place from GBX 1,686 to GBX 1,663 and set an "overweight" rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada reissued a "sector perform" rating and set a GBX 1,400 price objective on shares of St. James's Place in a research report on Thursday, April 30th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company's stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, St. James's Place presently has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average target price of GBX 1,675.43.
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St. James's Place Company Profile
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We plan, grow and protect the financial futures of over one million clients across the UK by providing holistic advice-led wealth management, delivered exclusively by the Partnership, our group of more than 4,900 highly skilled advisers.
We offer an integrated client proposition, through which we provide financial advice, investment product wrappers such as pensions, investment bonds and ISAs, and offer our own range of investment funds and portfolios.
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