Key Points
- Whitbread insider Shelley Roberts purchased 485 shares at GBX 2,456 each, investing a total of £11,911.60.
- Whitbread shares opened at GBX 2,479, up 0.6%, with a market capitalization of approximately £4.14 billion and a 52-week trading range of GBX 2,098 to GBX 3,302.
- Analyst sentiment is “Moderate Buy,” with five Buy ratings and three Holds, though published price targets vary widely.
Whitbread plc (LON:WTB - Get Free Report) insider Shelley Roberts bought 485 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Tuesday, August 11th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 2,456 per share, with a total value of £11,911.60.
Whitbread Stock Up 0.6%
WTB stock opened at GBX 2,479 on Thursday. The stock has a market capitalization of £4.14 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.25, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of -3.09 and a beta of 0.65. The company has a 50-day moving average of GBX 2,419.16 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 2,459.11. Whitbread plc has a 52-week low of GBX 2,098 and a 52-week high of GBX 3,302. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 174.28, a current ratio of 0.44 and a quick ratio of 1.74.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
WTB has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Shore Capital Group restated a "buy" rating and set a GBX 3,700 target price on shares of Whitbread in a research note on Thursday, June 18th. Berenberg Bank reaffirmed a "hold" rating and issued a GBX 2,280 price target on shares of Whitbread in a research report on Monday, June 22nd. Citigroup cut their price target on Whitbread from £330 to £310 and set a "buy" rating for the company in a report on Friday, June 19th. UBS Group reiterated a "buy" rating and set a GBX 2,975 price target on shares of Whitbread in a report on Friday, June 12th. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reduced their price objective on Whitbread from GBX 2,815 to GBX 2,530 and set a "hold" rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, May 6th. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and three have issued a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus target price of GBX 6,523.12.
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Whitbread is the owner of Premier Inn, the UK's biggest
hotel brand, with 86,000 rooms in over 850 hotels
and a growing presence in Germany with 10,500 rooms in
59 hotels, offering quality accommodation at affordable
prices in great locations.
People are at the heart of our business. We employ over
38,000 team members in over 900 Premier Inn hotels
across the UK and Germany.
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