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Severn Trent (LON:SVT) Stock Price Passes Above 200 Day Moving Average - Time to Sell?

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Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT - Get Free Report) passed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Tuesday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 2,551.38 ($33.86) and traded as high as GBX 2,770 ($36.76). Severn Trent shares last traded at GBX 2,758 ($36.60), with a volume of 342,683 shares.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several brokerages have commented on SVT. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reissued an "overweight" rating on shares of Severn Trent in a report on Thursday, March 6th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reduced their target price on Severn Trent from GBX 2,700 ($35.83) to GBX 2,600 ($34.50) and set a "hold" rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, March 6th.

Read Our Latest Stock Analysis on Severn Trent

Severn Trent Stock Down 1.4 %

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 450.94, a quick ratio of 0.73 and a current ratio of 2.14. The stock has a 50-day moving average of GBX 2,558.31 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 2,557.43. The company has a market cap of £8.18 billion, a P/E ratio of 45.75, a P/E/G ratio of 4.69 and a beta of 0.38.

Severn Trent Company Profile

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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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