S4 Capital (LON:SFOR) Receives "Buy" Rating from Jefferies Financial Group

Key Points

• Jefferies reaffirmed a Buy rating on S4 Capital with a GBX 43 target price, implying roughly a 15.5% upside from the prior close.
• Analyst coverage is mixed—one Buy and two Holds—giving a consensus rating of Hold and a consensus price target of GBX 32.67; Deutsche Bank raised its target to GBX 30 and kept a Hold rating.
• S4 opened at GBX 37.23 with a market cap of £246.8m; the company shows negative profitability (PE -10.06, net margin -3.29%, ROE -4.92%), reported GBX 5 EPS last quarter, and analysts forecast ~6.61 EPS for the fiscal year.

S4 Capital (LON:SFOR - Get Free Report)'s stock had its "buy" rating reaffirmed by equities researchers at Jefferies Financial Group in a research report issued to clients and investors on Thursday,London Stock Exchange reports. They currently have a GBX 43 target price on the stock. Jefferies Financial Group's target price indicates a potential upside of 15.51% from the company's previous close.

Separately, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft upped their target price on shares of S4 Capital from GBX 28 to GBX 30 and gave the stock a "hold" rating in a research note on Thursday, March 26th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of "Hold" and a consensus price target of GBX 32.67.

S4 Capital Stock Performance

Shares of SFOR stock opened at GBX 37.23 on Thursday. The firm has a market capitalization of £246.80 million, a PE ratio of -10.06, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.11 and a beta of 0.32. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 29.71 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 23.80. The company has a current ratio of 1.28, a quick ratio of 1.05 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 70.33. S4 Capital has a 12 month low of GBX 15.70 and a 12 month high of GBX 45.80.

S4 Capital (LON:SFOR - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, March 24th. The company reported GBX 5 EPS for the quarter. S4 Capital had a negative net margin of 3.29% and a negative return on equity of 4.92%. Analysts forecast that S4 Capital will post 6.6098807 EPS for the current fiscal year.

About S4 Capital

S4 Capital plc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a digital advertising and marketing services company in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through three segments: Content, Data & Digital Media, and Technology Services. The company offers contents, campaigns, and assets for paid, social, and earned media, such as digital platforms and apps, as well as brand activations. In addition, it provides campaign management analytics, creative production and ad serving, platform and systems integration and transition, and training and education services.

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