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St. James's Place (LON:STJ) Reaches New 12-Month High - Should You Buy?

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St. James's Place plc (LON:STJ - Get Free Report) shares reached a new 52-week high during mid-day trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as GBX 1,226 ($16.53) and last traded at GBX 1,223 ($16.49), with a volume of 2299876 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at GBX 1,224.50 ($16.51).

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several analysts recently commented on the company. Citigroup lifted their price objective on St. James's Place from GBX 1,210 ($16.32) to GBX 1,400 ($18.88) and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. restated an "overweight" rating and set a GBX 1,410 ($19.02) price target on shares of St. James's Place in a research note on Tuesday, July 8th.

Read Our Latest Analysis on STJ

St. James's Place Stock Performance

The business's fifty day moving average price is GBX 1,111.65 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 1,016.66. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 55.10, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a current ratio of 0.60. The stock has a market capitalization of £6.61 billion, a P/E ratio of -1,025.05, a P/E/G ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.23.

About St. James's Place

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We plan, grow and protect the financial futures of over one million clients across the UK by providing holistic advice-led wealth management, delivered exclusively by the Partnership, our group of more than 4,900 highly skilled advisers. We offer an integrated client proposition, through which we provide financial advice, investment product wrappers such as pensions, investment bonds and ISAs, and offer our own range of investment funds and portfolios.

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