St. James's Place plc (LON:STJ) Raises Dividend to GBX 28.40 Per Share

St. James's Place plc (LON:STJ - Get Free Report) declared a dividend on Monday, March 10th, DividendData.Co.Uk reports. Investors of record on Thursday, April 17th will be paid a dividend of GBX 28.40 ($0.38) per share on Thursday, May 1st. This represents a yield of 1.52%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 17th. This is a 136.7% increase from St. James's Place's previous dividend of $12.00. The official announcement can be viewed at this link.

St. James's Place Trading Down 0.5 %

LON STJ traded down GBX 4.70 ($0.06) during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching GBX 891.30 ($11.85). 1,332,218 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 7,615,860. The stock has a market capitalization of £4.82 billion, a PE ratio of -747.03, a PEG ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.23. The business's fifty day simple moving average is GBX 994.34 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 904.57. St. James's Place has a 1-year low of GBX 406.40 ($5.40) and a 1-year high of GBX 1,153.96 ($15.34). 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 announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 27th. The company reported GBX 73 ($0.97) earnings per share for the quarter. St. James's Place had a negative return on equity of 0.63% and a negative net margin of 0.02%. On average, research analysts anticipate that St. James's Place will post 67.9947461 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other St. James's Place news, insider Rooney Anand acquired 10,509 shares of St. James's Place stock in a transaction on Thursday, March 6th. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 1,032 ($13.72) per share, with a total value of £108,452.88 ($144,200.08). Insiders own 0.72% of the company's stock.

About St. James's Place

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.