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Balfour Beatty (LON:BBY) Sets New 1-Year High - Time to Buy?

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Balfour Beatty plc (LON:BBY - Get Free Report) shares hit a new 52-week high during trading on Friday . The company traded as high as GBX 536.18 ($7.20) and last traded at GBX 535.50 ($7.19), with a volume of 858984 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at GBX 527 ($7.07).

Balfour Beatty Stock Performance

The company has a market capitalization of £2.73 billion, a PE ratio of 12.50, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.75 and a beta of 0.81. The business's fifty day moving average is GBX 505.53 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 467.38. The company has a current ratio of 0.99, a quick ratio of 0.84 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 79.85.

Balfour Beatty Company Profile

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Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group. With 26,000 employees across the UK, US and Hong Kong, we're leading the transformation of our industry to meet the challenges of the future. Trusted by our customers to deliver sustainable solutions and strengthen communities, we finance, develop, build, maintain and operate the increasingly complex and critical infrastructure that supports national economies and deliver projects at the heart of local communities.

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