St. James's Place plc (LON:STJ - Get Free Report) passed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Monday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 940.87 ($12.73) and traded as high as GBX 1,094.50 ($14.81). St. James's Place shares last traded at GBX 1,088 ($14.72), with a volume of 959,898 shares trading hands.
St. James's Place Stock Performance
The company has a current ratio of 0.60, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 55.10. The company's 50-day simple moving average is GBX 965.31 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 949.25. The stock has a market capitalization of £5.88 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -911.06, a PEG ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.23.
St. James's Place (LON:STJ - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 27th. The company reported GBX 73 ($0.99) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. St. James's Place had a negative net margin of 0.02% and a negative return on equity of 0.63%. On average, analysts expect that St. James's Place plc will post 67.9947461 EPS for the current year.
St. James's Place Increases Dividend
The firm also recently declared a dividend, which was paid on Thursday, May 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, April 17th were given a GBX 28.40 ($0.38) dividend. This is a boost from St. James's Place's previous dividend of $12.00. This represents a yield of 1.52%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, April 17th. St. James's Place's dividend payout ratio is -1,173.40%.
Insider Buying and Selling at St. James's Place
In other news, insider Rooney Anand acquired 10,509 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 6th. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 1,032 ($13.96) per share, for a total transaction of £108,452.88 ($146,756.27). Corporate 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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