Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) Insider Buys £47,448 in Stock

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

Severn Trent Stock Performance

Severn Trent stock traded down GBX 22.57 ($0.31) during midday trading on Friday, hitting GBX 2,705.43 ($36.83). The stock had a trading volume of 320,059 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,046,464. 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). The company has a market capitalization of £8.08 billion, a PE ratio of 45.16, a P/E/G ratio of 4.69 and a beta of 0.38. The firm's fifty day moving average is GBX 2,685.64 and its two-hundred day 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.

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

Analysts Set New Price Targets

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

Severn Trent Company Profile

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.