St. James's Place plc (STJ.L) - What Are Researchers Saying About This Stock?

Key Points

• Analysts maintain a “Moderate Buy” consensus on St. James’s Place, with five buy ratings and two holds. The average 12-month price target is GBX 1,721.86, well above the reported opening price of GBX 1,074.
• Recent analyst actions were broadly positive: Deutsche Bank, Berenberg, Jefferies, and Citigroup retained buy ratings, while Berenberg raised its target to GBX 1,945 and Citigroup trimmed its target to GBX 1,820.
• St. James’s Place reported quarterly EPS of GBX 43.30, with a 37.02% return on equity and a 1.25% net margin. Insider Paul Manduca also bought 3,624 shares, worth approximately £39,792.

St. James's Place plc (LON:STJ - Get Free Report) has been assigned a consensus recommendation of "Moderate Buy" from the seven analysts that are presently covering the firm, Marketbeat.com reports. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and five have assigned a buy recommendation to the company. The average 12 month price target among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is GBX 1,721.86.

STJ has been the topic of a number of analyst reports. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft restated a "buy" rating and issued a GBX 2,050 price target on shares of St. James's Place in a research note on Thursday, July 30th. Berenberg Bank lifted their target price on shares of St. James's Place from GBX 1,800 to GBX 1,945 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research report on Friday, August 7th. Jefferies Financial Group reiterated a "buy" rating and set a GBX 1,700 price objective on shares of St. James's Place in a report on Wednesday, July 29th. Finally, Citigroup lowered their price objective on St. James's Place from GBX 1,830 to GBX 1,820 and set a "buy" rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, August 12th.

St. James's Place Price Performance

Shares of STJ opened at GBX 1,074 on Friday. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of GBX 1,101.42 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 1,211.76. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 33.04, a current ratio of 0.39 and a quick ratio of 3.85. St. James's Place has a 1-year low of GBX 1,011.50 and a 1-year high of GBX 1,575.50. The stock has a market cap of £5.29 billion, a PE ratio of 10.08, a P/E/G ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.02.

St. James's Place (LON:STJ - Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, July 29th. The company reported GBX 43.30 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. St. James's Place had a return on equity of 37.02% and a net margin of 1.25%. As a group, analysts forecast that St. James's Place will post 67.99 EPS for the current year.

Insider Transactions at St. James's Place

In other news, insider Paul Manduca acquired 3,624 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, September 23rd. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 1,098 per share, with a total value of £39,791.52. 1.22% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

St. James's Place Company Profile

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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