Harworth Group plc (LON:HWG) Declares Dividend of GBX 1.13

Harworth Group plc (LON:HWG) announced a dividend on Tuesday, March 18th, DividendData.Co.Uk reports. Investors of record on Thursday, April 24th will be paid a dividend of GBX 1.13 ($0.01) per share on Friday, May 23rd. This represents a yield of 0.65%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 24th. This is a 130.1% increase from Harworth Group’s previous dividend of $0.49. The official announcement can be viewed at this link.

Harworth Group Price Performance

Shares of HWG opened at GBX 169.25 ($2.20) on Wednesday. Harworth Group has a fifty-two week low of GBX 125 ($1.63) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 195 ($2.54). The firm’s 50 day moving average price is GBX 164.77 and its 200 day moving average price is GBX 171.49. The company has a quick ratio of 1.13, a current ratio of 2.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 13.88. The company has a market cap of £557.20 million, a P/E ratio of 11.16 and a beta of 0.74.

Harworth Group (LON:HWG) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, March 18th. The company reported GBX 17.70 ($0.23) EPS for the quarter. Harworth Group had a net margin of 52.25% and a return on equity of 7.75%. On average, research analysts forecast that Harworth Group will post 15.3212521 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Harworth Group

In related news, insider Lynda Shillaw bought 17,291 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 18th. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 174 ($2.26) per share, for a total transaction of £30,086.34 ($39,113.81). In the last three months, insiders have bought 17,473 shares of company stock valued at $3,038,573. Insiders own 53.39% of the company’s stock.

Harworth Group Company Profile

Harworth Group plc is a leading sustainable regenerator of land and property for development and investment which owns, develops and manages a portfolio of over 14,000 acres of land on around 100 sites located throughout the North of England and Midlands. The Group specialises in the regeneration of large, complex sites, in particular former industrial sites, into new residential and industrial & logistics developments.