Dunelm Group (LON:DNLM) Insider Clodagh Moriarty Purchases 16,105 Shares of Stock

Key Points

• Insider Clodagh Moriarty bought 16,105 Dunelm shares at GBX 874 each, spending £140,757.70. She had sold 47,817 shares at GBX 800 in September.
• Analysts have a consensus “Moderate Buy” rating and an average price target of GBX 1,042.14; six analysts rate the stock Buy and one rates it Sell.
• Dunelm shares opened at GBX 888, within their 12-month range of GBX 707 to GBX 1,170. The company reported quarterly EPS of GBX 77 and a net margin of 8.52%.

Dunelm Group plc (LON:DNLM - Get Free Report) insider Clodagh Moriarty acquired 16,105 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, November 4th. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 874 per share, for a total transaction of £140,757.70.

Clodagh Moriarty also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Monday, September 28th, Clodagh Moriarty sold 47,817 shares of Dunelm Group stock. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 800, for a total value of £382,536.

Dunelm Group Stock Performance

Shares of DNLM opened at GBX 888 on Wednesday. The company's 50 day simple moving average is GBX 822.97 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 842.97. The firm has a market cap of £1.79 billion, a PE ratio of 11.56, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of -10.32 and a beta of 1.03. Dunelm Group plc has a 12-month low of GBX 707 and a 12-month high of GBX 1,170. The company has a current ratio of 1.02, a quick ratio of 0.16 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 258.52.

Dunelm Group (LON:DNLM - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, September 8th. The company reported GBX 77 earnings per share for the quarter. Dunelm Group had a net margin of 8.52% and a return on equity of 99.65%. As a group, equities analysts predict that Dunelm Group plc will post 77.10 EPS for the current year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research firms have commented on DNLM. Canaccord Genuity Group reaffirmed a "buy" rating and set a GBX 1,185 price objective on shares of Dunelm Group in a research note on Friday, October 16th. Shore Capital Group restated a "buy" rating and set a GBX 1,000 price target on shares of Dunelm Group in a research note on Friday, September 18th. Berenberg Bank reaffirmed a "buy" rating and set a GBX 1,200 price target on shares of Dunelm Group in a report on Wednesday, September 9th. Jefferies Financial Group reiterated a "buy" rating and issued a GBX 1,030 price objective on shares of Dunelm Group in a research report on Thursday, October 15th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped their price objective on shares of Dunelm Group from GBX 1,225 to GBX 1,050 and set an "overweight" rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, September 9th. Six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company's stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus target price of GBX 1,042.14.

About Dunelm Group

Dunelm is the UK's market leader in homewares with a purpose 'to help create the joy of truly feeling at home, now and for generations to come'. Its specialist customer proposition offers value, quality, choice and style across an extensive range of c.70,000 products, spanning multiple homewares and furniture categories and including services such as Made to Measure window treatments. The business was founded in 1979 by the Adderley family, beginning as a curtains stall on Leicester market before expanding its store footprint.

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