Insider Buying: Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (LON:SST) Insider Buys 25,000 Shares of Stock

Key Points

• Insider purchase: Jeremy Whitley bought 25,000 shares on May 5 at an average price of GBX 268 per share, a transaction worth £67,000.
• The stock was up 0.4% to GBX 268 on the day with 95,017 shares traded (below its average volume of 179,849) and a market cap of £301.47 million.
• Recent quarterly results showed EPS of GBX (0.14) on revenue of GBX 222 million, with a negative net margin (16.42%) and negative ROE, and the trust focuses on small‑cap equities in Asia (ex Japan).

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (LON:SST - Get Free Report) insider Jeremy Whitley purchased 25,000 shares of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, May 5th. The shares were purchased at an average price of GBX 268 per share, with a total value of £67,000.

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos Stock Up 0.4%

Shares of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos stock traded up GBX 0.96 during trading on Tuesday, hitting GBX 268. 95,017 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 179,849. The stock has a market cap of £301.47 million, a P/E ratio of -22.28 and a beta of 0.30. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 7.82, a quick ratio of 7.77 and a current ratio of 2.39. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has a twelve month low of GBX 240 and a twelve month high of GBX 310. The company has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 261.36 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 272.18.

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (LON:SST - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, May 1st. The company reported GBX (0.14) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The firm had revenue of GBX 222 million for the quarter. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos had a negative net margin of 16.42% and a negative return on equity of 2.07%.

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos Company Profile

The Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust plc is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by First Sentier Investors (UK) Funds Limited. It is co-managed by First State Investment Management (UK) Limited. The fund invests in the public equity markets of Asia, excluding Japan and Australasia. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund primarily invests in stocks of small-cap companies having market capitalizations below $1.5 billion. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the MSCI AC Asia (ex Japan) Index.

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