Insider Selling: Savills (LON:SVS) Insider Sells £365,131.20 in Stock

Key Points

• Insider sale: On April 28, director Simon Shaw sold 43,468 Savills shares at an average of GBX 840, generating £365,131.20 in proceeds.
• Market and analyst context: The stock traded at GBX 836 (down GBX 8) with a market cap of £1.15bn and a P/E of 16.96, and analysts hold a consensus Buy rating with a GBX 1,180 price target.

Savills plc (LON:SVS - Get Free Report) insider Simon Shaw sold 43,468 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, April 28th. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 840, for a total value of £365,131.20.

Savills Stock Performance

Shares of LON:SVS traded down GBX 8 during trading on Wednesday, hitting GBX 836. The stock had a trading volume of 157,328 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,135,478. The company has a quick ratio of 1.22, a current ratio of 1.17 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 80.81. Savills plc has a 12-month low of GBX 791.46 and a 12-month high of GBX 1,126. The stock has a market capitalization of £1.15 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.96, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.09 and a beta of 1.30. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of GBX 896.31 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 972.10.

Savills (LON:SVS - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March 12th. The company reported GBX 77.20 earnings per share for the quarter. Savills had a net margin of 2.78% and a return on equity of 9.70%. On average, equities research analysts expect that Savills plc will post 76.1455526 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, Shore Capital Group restated a "buy" rating on shares of Savills in a research report on Thursday, March 12th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, According to MarketBeat, Savills currently has a consensus rating of "Buy" and a consensus price target of GBX 1,180.

About Savills

Founded in the UK in 1855, Savills is one of the world's leading property agents. Our experience and expertise spans the globe, with 600 offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. Our scale gives us wide-ranging specialist and local knowledge, and we take pride in providing best-in-class advice as we help individuals, businesses and institutions make better property decisions.

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