Shares of St. James's Place plc (LON:STJ - Get Free Report) crossed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Wednesday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 916.89 ($12.18) and traded as high as GBX 961 ($12.77). St. James's Place shares last traded at GBX 939.20 ($12.48), with a volume of 1,933,898 shares changing hands.
St. James's Place Price Performance
The firm has a market cap of £5.42 billion, a P/E ratio of -839.40, a PEG ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.23. The business's fifty day simple moving average is GBX 961.38 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 918.54. The company has a current ratio of 0.60, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 55.10.
St. James's Place (LON:STJ - Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 27th. The company reported GBX 73 ($0.97) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. St. James's Place had a negative return on equity of 0.63% and a negative net margin of 0.02%. As a group, analysts forecast that St. James's Place plc will post 67.9947461 EPS for the current fiscal year.
St. James's Place Increases Dividend
The company also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Thursday, May 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 17th were given a GBX 28.40 ($0.38) dividend. This is a positive change from St. James's Place's previous dividend of $12.00. This represents a dividend yield of 1.52%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, April 17th. St. James's Place's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is -1,173.40%.
Insider Activity at St. James's Place
In other St. James's Place news, insider Rooney Anand acquired 10,509 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, March 6th. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 1,032 ($13.71) per share, with a total value of £108,452.88 ($144,085.13). 0.72% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
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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