Informa plc (LON:INF) Receives Average Rating of "Moderate Buy" from Analysts

Key Points

• Analysts give Informa an average rating of "Moderate Buy" (six buys, one hold) with a mean 12‑month price target of GBX 1,076.43.
• Insider activity: director Stephen A. Carter sold 330,249 shares at GBX 934 on Jan 22 for £3,084,525.66, and insiders own just 0.39% of the stock.
• Market snapshot: LON:INF opened at GBX 815, sits below the average target with a 52‑week range of GBX 700.40–1,000, a market cap of ~£10.31bn, and reported metrics including a PE of 1,018.75 and a net margin of 1.64%.

Shares of Informa plc (LON:INF - Get Free Report) have received an average rating of "Moderate Buy" from the seven analysts that are currently covering the company, Marketbeat.com reports. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and six have issued a buy rating on the company. The average twelve-month price target among analysts that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is GBX 1,076.43.

Several equities research analysts have weighed in on INF shares. Berenberg Bank restated a "buy" rating and set a GBX 1,030 target price on shares of Informa in a research note on Wednesday, January 21st. Citigroup cut their target price on Informa from GBX 1,000 to GBX 850 and set a "neutral" rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, April 9th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut their target price on Informa from GBX 1,345 to GBX 1,330 and set an "overweight" rating for the company in a research note on Monday, January 12th.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Informa news, insider Stephen A. Carter sold 330,249 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Thursday, January 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 934, for a total transaction of £3,084,525.66. 0.39% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Informa Stock Down 1.1%

LON INF opened at GBX 815 on Wednesday. The business has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 792.77 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 871.63. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 61.56, a current ratio of 0.44 and a quick ratio of 1.70. Informa has a fifty-two week low of GBX 700.40 and a fifty-two week high of GBX 1,000. The stock has a market capitalization of £10.31 billion, a PE ratio of 1,018.75, a PEG ratio of 0.75 and a beta of 0.69.

Informa (LON:INF - Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Thursday, March 12th. The company reported GBX 56 earnings per share for the quarter. Informa had a return on equity of 0.87% and a net margin of 1.64%. Equities analysts expect that Informa will post 59.3240265 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

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