M&C Saatchi plc (LON:SAA - Get Free Report) insider Zaid Al-Qassab purchased 43,597 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, May 30th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 172 ($2.33) per share, with a total value of £74,986.84 ($101,621.95).
M&C Saatchi Stock Down 0.3%
SAA traded down GBX 0.50 ($0.01) during trading hours on Thursday, reaching GBX 176 ($2.39). 40,925 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 478,351. M&C Saatchi plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 154 ($2.09) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 220 ($2.98). The company has a market cap of £217.54 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.82 and a beta of 1.27. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 71.51, a current ratio of 1.07 and a quick ratio of 0.93. The firm's fifty day simple moving average is GBX 163.13 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 174.27.
M&C Saatchi (LON:SAA - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March 27th. The company reported GBX 9.63 ($0.13) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. M&C Saatchi had a return on equity of 34.45% and a net margin of 2.43%.
M&C Saatchi Increases Dividend
The company also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, June 11th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 8th will be given a dividend of GBX 1.95 ($0.03) per share. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 8th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.18%. This is a positive change from M&C Saatchi's previous dividend of $1.60. M&C Saatchi's dividend payout ratio is currently 33.79%.
M&C Saatchi Company Profile
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We are a global marketing services business working across a wide variety of industry sectors with a strategy focused on winning new business and starting new businesses.
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