St. James's Place (STJ) Share Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

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.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: 1,173 to 1,202.50
• 50-Day Range: 1,127.63 to 1,316
• 52-Week Range: 1,114 to 1,575.50
• Volume: 410.97 million shs
• Average Volume: 26.24 million shs
• Market Capitalization: £6.06 billion
• P/E Ratio: 12.05
• Dividend Yield: 1.57%
• Price Target: GBX 1,689.71
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

St. James's Place Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

St. James's Place scored higher than 87% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 4.4 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

St. James's Place has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.71, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 5 buy ratings, 2 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Upside Potential

St. James's Place has a consensus price target of GBX 1,689.71, representing about 41.9% upside from its current price of GBX 1,190.77.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

St. James's Place has been the subject of 6 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.3 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of St. James's Place is 12.05, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 45.97.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of St. James's Place is 12.05, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Financial Services sector average P/E ratio of about 29.21.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

St. James's Place has a PEG Ratio of 1.10. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

St. James's Place has a P/B Ratio of 5.96. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for STJ.

Dividend

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

St. James's Place pays a meaningful dividend of 1.57%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

St. James's Place does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of St. James's Place is 18.22%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

News and Social Media

• Score: 1.2 / 5
• News Sentiment: -0.10

News Sentiment

St. James's Place has a news sentiment score of -0.10. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.82 average news sentiment score of Financial Services companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 4 news articles for St. James's Place this week, compared to 1 article on an average week.

Search Interest

Only 1 people have searched for STJ on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of 0% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 2.9 / 5
• Insider Trading: Acquiring Shares

Net Insider Buying

Over the last three months, insiders have purchased a net £99,500.76 in company stock, which represents 0.0016% of the company's market cap.

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, St. James's Place insiders have bought more of their company's stock than they have sold. Specifically, they have bought £99,500.76 in company stock and sold GBX 0 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

1.21% of the stock of St. James's Place is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

77.83% of the stock of St. James's Place is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 2/25/2026
• Today: 6/28/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: LON
• Sector: Financial Services
• Industry: Asset Management
• Sub-Industry: N/A
• Current Symbol: LON:STJ
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.sjp.co.uk
• Phone: +44-1285-640302
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 2,298
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for St. James's Place: GBX 1,689.71
• High Price Target: GBX 2,000
• Low Price Target: GBX 1,400
• Potential Upside/Downside: +41.9%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.71
• Research Coverage: 7 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): GBX 98.80
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 12.05
• Forward P/E Ratio: 17.51
• P/E Growth: 1.1
• Net Income: -£6.46 million
• Net Margins: 1.76%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: 37.33%
• Return on Assets: 0.22%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 36.73
• Current Ratio: 3.80
• Quick Ratio: 3.85

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: £30.14 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.20
• Cash Flow: GBX 1,457.49 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 0.82
• Book Value: GBX 199.79 per share
• Price / Book: 5.96

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 508,802,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: £6.06 billion
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 1.01