Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) Insider Richard Taylor Buys 1,800 Shares

Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT - Get Free Report) insider Richard Taylor acquired 1,800 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction on Monday, June 9th. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 2,636 ($35.89) per share, for a total transaction of £47,448 ($64,599.05).

Severn Trent Price Performance

SVT stock traded up GBX 6.42 ($0.09) during midday trading on Thursday, reaching GBX 2,727.42 ($37.13). The stock had a trading volume of 334,566 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,070,807. The company's fifty day simple moving average is GBX 2,685.64 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 2,568.74. The company has a current ratio of 2.14, a quick ratio of 0.73 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 450.94. The company has a market cap of £8.14 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 45.52, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.69 and a beta of 0.38. Severn Trent PLC has a 52-week low of GBX 2,323 ($31.63) and a 52-week high of GBX 2,807 ($38.22).

Severn Trent (LON:SVT - Get Free Report) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, May 21st. The company reported GBX 112.10 ($1.53) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Severn Trent had a return on equity of 10.40% and a net margin of 6.00%. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that Severn Trent PLC will post 107.3706004 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

SVT has been the topic of a number of research reports. JPMorgan Chase & Co. restated an "overweight" rating on shares of Severn Trent in a report on Thursday, March 6th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft decreased their price objective on Severn Trent from GBX 2,700 ($36.76) to GBX 2,600 ($35.40) and set a "hold" rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, March 6th.

About Severn Trent

As one of Britain's largest water companies, we provide over eight million people across our region with fresh, clean drinking water – about two billion litres every day. And when they've finished with it, we take it away again then clean and treat it before returning it safely back to the environment. We are one of only three listed water stocks in the UK, offering a valuable combination of reliable earnings, long term asset growth and an inflation-linked dividend.