Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) Insider Buys £7,959 in Stock

Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT - Get Free Report) insider Thomas (Tom) Delay acquired 300 shares of Severn Trent stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, June 9th. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 2,653 ($36.12) per share, for a total transaction of £7,959 ($10,835.94).

Severn Trent Trading Down 0.8%

SVT traded down GBX 22.57 ($0.31) during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting GBX 2,705.43 ($36.83). 320,059 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,046,464. The company has a market cap of £8.08 billion, a PE ratio of 45.16, a PEG ratio of 4.69 and a beta of 0.38. The company has a current ratio of 2.14, a quick ratio of 0.73 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 450.94. The firm's fifty day moving average is GBX 2,685.64 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 2,568.74. Severn Trent PLC has a 1-year low of GBX 2,323 ($31.63) and a 1-year high of GBX 2,807 ($38.22).

Severn Trent (LON:SVT - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 21st. The company reported GBX 112.10 ($1.53) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Severn Trent had a net margin of 6.00% and a return on equity of 10.40%. Equities analysts forecast that Severn Trent PLC will post 107.3706004 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

SVT has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reiterated an "overweight" rating on shares of Severn Trent in a research report on Thursday, March 6th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft cut their target price on Severn Trent from GBX 2,700 ($36.76) to GBX 2,600 ($35.40) and set a "hold" rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, March 6th.

About Severn Trent

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.