Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC, together with its subsidiaries, provides price comparison website in the United Kingdom. The company operates through Insurance, Money, Home Services, Travel and Cashback segments. It offers online and app-based tools to save money on their household bills across insurance, money, and home service channels under the MoneySuperMarket brand; and compares travel deals, including holidays, car hire, flights, and hotels under the TravelSupermarket brand. The company also operates a consumer finance website under the MoneySavingExpert brand; a B2B price comparison technology platform for third party brands, as well as B2C platform compares home communications and mobile phone price under the Decision Tech brand; Quidco, a cashback website in the United Kingdom; and icelolly.com, a holiday comparison and deals site. In addition, it provides financial intermediary services. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Chester, the United Kingdom.
Moneysupermarket.com Group Stock Down 1.6 %
Moneysupermarket.com Group stock traded down GBX 3.40 ($0.04) during midday trading on Tuesday, reaching GBX 213.60 ($2.58). The company's stock had a trading volume of 1,756,873 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,232,586. The company has a market cap of £1.15 billion and a P/E ratio of 1,957.32. The company has a quick ratio of 0.71, a current ratio of 0.76 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 42.68. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of GBX 191.31 and a 200-day simple moving average of GBX 188.57. Moneysupermarket.com Group has a fifty-two week low of GBX 162.30 ($1.96) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 260.80 ($3.15).
Moneysupermarket.com Group Cuts Dividend
The business also recently disclosed a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, September 2nd. Shareholders of record on Thursday, July 28th will be paid a GBX 3.10 ($0.04) dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, July 28th. This represents a yield of 1.55%. Moneysupermarket.com Group's dividend payout ratio is presently 106.45%.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
A number of research firms have weighed in on MONY. Berenberg Bank reissued a "buy" rating and issued a GBX 275 ($3.32) target price on shares of Moneysupermarket.com Group in a research note on Monday, July 25th. Royal Bank of Canada lifted their target price on shares of Moneysupermarket.com Group from GBX 210 ($2.54) to GBX 230 ($2.78) and gave the stock a "sector perform" rating in a research note on Friday, July 22nd. Shore Capital restated a "buy" rating on shares of Moneysupermarket.com Group in a report on Thursday, July 21st. Finally, Barclays increased their price objective on Moneysupermarket.com Group from GBX 220 ($2.66) to GBX 230 ($2.78) and gave the stock an "equal weight" rating in a research report on Friday, July 22nd. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average price target of GBX 265.83 ($3.21).