Peel Hunt Reiterates "Add" Rating for Games Workshop Group (LON:GAW)

Key Points

• Peel Hunt has reaffirmed its "Add" rating for Games Workshop Group with a target price of £165, indicating a potential upside of 11.94% from the stock's previous close.
• The company's stock opened at £147.40, with key metrics including a debt-to-equity ratio of 18.77 and a net margin of 28.74%.
• Insider transactions reveal that insiders purchased 2,924 shares of the company's stock valued at approximately £47.5 million within the last ninety days.

Peel Hunt reiterated their add rating on shares of Games Workshop Group (LON:GAW - Free Report) in a report issued on Wednesday, MarketBeat.com reports. The brokerage currently has a £165 price target on the stock.

Games Workshop Group Trading Down 0.5%

Shares of LON:GAW traded down GBX 67.84 during trading on Wednesday, hitting £148.12. The company had a trading volume of 43,462 shares, compared to its average volume of 139,193. The stock has a market cap of £4.88 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 2,495.73, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.41 and a beta of 1.25. Games Workshop Group has a one year low of £104.34 and a one year high of £167.50. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of £155.74 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of £152.86. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 18.77, a current ratio of 3.29 and a quick ratio of 2.33.

Games Workshop Group (LON:GAW - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 30th. The company reported GBX 594.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Games Workshop Group had a return on equity of 60.82% and a net margin of 28.74%. As a group, equities analysts forecast that Games Workshop Group will post 448.9953023 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Activity at Games Workshop Group

In other Games Workshop Group news, insider Elizabeth Harrison purchased 475 shares of Games Workshop Group stock in a transaction dated Friday, August 1st. The shares were purchased at an average cost of £163.03 per share, for a total transaction of £77,439.25. Also, insider Kevin Rountree acquired 104 shares of Games Workshop Group stock in a transaction on Friday, August 15th. The shares were purchased at an average price of £156.61 per share, for a total transaction of £16,287.44. Over the last quarter, insiders bought 2,924 shares of company stock worth $47,478,919. Company insiders own 7.93% of the company's stock.

Games Workshop Group Company Profile

Games Workshop Group PLC, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells miniature figures and games in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Core and Licensing. The company offers games under the Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, and Warhammer 40,000 names, as well as Horus Heresy and Blood Bowl.