LON:SCTSoftcat Share Price, Forecast & News

Softcat's stock was trading at GBX 992 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, SCT stock has increased by 16.7% and is now trading at GBX 1,158. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Softcat in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Softcat.

Softcat PLC (LON:SCT) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, March, 17th. The company reported $16.70 earnings per share for the quarter. View Softcat's earnings history.

Softcat declared a dividend on Tuesday, March 17th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 2nd will be paid a dividend of GBX 5.40 per share on Friday, May 15th. This represents a dividend yield of 0.58%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 2nd. The official announcement can be accessed at this link. View Softcat's dividend history.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Softcat's shares. Their forecasts range from GBX 950 to GBX 1,440. On average, they expect Softcat's stock price to reach GBX 1,179 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.8% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Softcat.

Press coverage about SCT stock has trended somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Softcat earned a media sentiment score of -1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news about Softcat.

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Softcat trades on the London Stock Exchange (LON) under the ticker symbol "SCT."

Shares of SCT and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock.

One share of SCT stock can currently be purchased for approximately GBX 1,158.

Softcat has a market capitalization of £2.30 billion and generates £1.08 billion in revenue each year.

The official website for Softcat is www.softcat.com.

Softcat's mailing address is Fieldhouse Lane, MARLOW, SL7 1TB, United Kingdom. The company can be reached via phone at +44-1628-403403.