Insider Selling: Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) Insider Sells 6,802 Shares of Stock

Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT - Get Free Report) insider Olivia (Liv) Garfield sold 6,802 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Monday, June 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 2,695 ($36.57), for a total transaction of £183,313.90 ($248,763.60).

Severn Trent Stock Down 0.3%

Shares of Severn Trent stock traded down GBX 8.87 ($0.12) on Tuesday, reaching GBX 2,685.14 ($36.44). The company's stock had a trading volume of 678,718 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,003,186. The company has a quick ratio of 0.73, a current ratio of 2.14 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 450.94. The company has a market capitalization of £8.02 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 44.82, a P/E/G ratio of 4.69 and a beta of 0.38. Severn Trent PLC has a 52 week low of GBX 2,323 ($31.52) and a 52 week high of GBX 2,807 ($38.09). The firm's fifty day simple moving average is GBX 2,692.15 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 2,567.87.

Severn Trent (LON:SVT - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 21st. The company reported GBX 112.10 ($1.52) EPS for the quarter. Severn Trent had a return on equity of 10.40% and a net margin of 6.00%. Equities analysts anticipate that Severn Trent PLC will post 107.3706004 earnings per share for the current year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research analysts have recently weighed in on the company. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reissued an "overweight" rating on shares of Severn Trent in a research note on Thursday, March 6th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft decreased their target price on Severn Trent from GBX 2,700 ($36.64) to GBX 2,600 ($35.28) and set a "hold" rating for the company in a research report 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.

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