Insider Selling: Victorian Plumbing Group plc (LON:VIC) Insider Sells 181,000 Shares of Stock

Victorian Plumbing Group plc (LON:VIC - Get Free Report) insider Philip Bowcock sold 181,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, July 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 76 ($1.04), for a total value of £137,560 ($187,846.51).

Victorian Plumbing Group Stock Performance

Victorian Plumbing Group stock traded up GBX 0.60 ($0.01) during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting GBX 77.80 ($1.06). 317,365 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 857,910. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of GBX 83.38 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 91.61. Victorian Plumbing Group plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 72.60 ($0.99) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 124 ($1.69). The stock has a market cap of £262.07 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 47.67, a P/E/G ratio of 0.51 and a beta of 1.03. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 88.15, a current ratio of 1.07 and a quick ratio of 1.05.

Victorian Plumbing Group (LON:VIC - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 14th. The company reported GBX 1.90 ($0.03) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Victorian Plumbing Group had a return on equity of 10.60% and a net margin of 1.86%. On average, research analysts expect that Victorian Plumbing Group plc will post 5.980995 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, Berenberg Bank cut their price objective on Victorian Plumbing Group from GBX 140 ($1.91) to GBX 125 ($1.71) and set a "buy" rating for the company in a report on Monday, May 19th.

About Victorian Plumbing Group

Victorian Plumbing is the UK's leading bathroom retailer, offering a wide range of over 34,000 products to B2C and trade customers. Victorian Plumbing offers its customers a one-stop shop solution for the entire bathroom with more than 130 own and third party brands across a wide spectrum of price points. The Group's product design and supply chain strengths are complemented by its creative and brand-focused marketing strategy, which predominantly focuses on online channels to drive significant and growing traffic to its website. Headquartered in Skelmersdale, the Group employs over 600 staff across ten locations in Lancashire, Manchester and Birmingham.