Marshalls plc (LON:MSLH - Get Free Report) insider Matt Pullen purchased 13,439 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, April 29th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 262 ($3.29) per share, for a total transaction of £35,210.18 ($44,228.34).
Marshalls Stock Performance
Shares of MSLH stock traded up GBX 5 ($0.06) during trading on Monday, hitting GBX 268.50 ($3.37). The company's stock had a trading volume of 316,139 shares, compared to its average volume of 514,091. The company has a market cap of £679.22 million, a PE ratio of 3,835.71, a P/E/G ratio of 0.17 and a beta of 1.17. The company has a current ratio of 1.87, a quick ratio of 1.34 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 39.31. The business has a fifty day moving average of GBX 281.37 and a 200-day moving average of GBX 261.72. Marshalls plc has a 52 week low of GBX 195.30 ($2.45) and a 52 week high of GBX 315.60 ($3.96).
Marshalls Increases Dividend
The firm also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Monday, July 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 6th will be issued a GBX 5.70 ($0.07) dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, June 6th. This is a positive change from Marshalls's previous dividend of $2.60. This represents a dividend yield of 1.96%. Marshalls's dividend payout ratio is currently 11,428.57%.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
Separately, Berenberg Bank raised Marshalls to a "buy" rating and upped their price target for the stock from GBX 320 ($4.02) to GBX 420 ($5.28) in a research note on Wednesday, January 31st.
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Marshalls plc, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells landscape, building, and roofing products in the United Kingdom and internationally. It offers paving products, such as flag paving, natural stone paving, block paving, permeable paving, tactile paving, accessories, steps, rail products, marker blocks, setts and cobbles, and pedestals; kerbs; and combined kerb and drainage systems, linear drainage systems, below ground drainage, offsite solutions, civils and drainage water management, specialist precast, and precast solutions.
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