St. James's Place plc (LON:STJ - Get Free Report)'s share price crossed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 931.01 ($12.35) and traded as high as GBX 1,042 ($13.82). St. James's Place shares last traded at GBX 1,024.46 ($13.59), with a volume of 5,436,907 shares changing hands.
St. James's Place Stock Performance
The firm's 50 day moving average is GBX 953.39 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 935.53. The stock has a market capitalization of £5.79 billion, a PE ratio of -897.65, a P/E/G ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.23. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 55.10, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a current ratio of 0.60.
St. James's Place (LON:STJ - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results 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, research analysts predict that St. James's Place plc will post 67.9947461 earnings per share for the current year.
St. James's Place Increases Dividend
The company also recently declared a dividend, which was paid on Thursday, May 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, April 17th were issued a dividend of GBX 28.40 ($0.38) per share. This represents a yield of 1.52%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, April 17th. This is a boost from St. James's Place's previous dividend of $12.00. St. James's Place's payout ratio is -1,173.40%.
Insider Buying and Selling
In other St. James's Place news, insider Rooney Anand bought 10,509 shares of St. James's Place stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 6th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 1,032 ($13.69) per share, with a total value of £108,452.88 ($143,874.87). Insiders own 0.72% of the company's stock.
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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