Essentra plc (LON:ESNT) Announces Dividend Increase – GBX 1.55 Per Share

Essentra plc (LON:ESNT) declared a dividend on Wednesday, March 19th, DividendData.Co.Uk reports. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 15th will be given a dividend of GBX 1.55 ($0.02) per share on Thursday, July 3rd. This represents a yield of 1.41%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 15th. This is a 24.0% increase from Essentra’s previous dividend of $1.25. The official announcement can be accessed at this link.

Essentra Stock Performance

LON ESNT opened at GBX 106.80 ($1.38) on Friday. The stock’s fifty day moving average is GBX 119.85 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 138.04. The firm has a market capitalization of £306.98 million, a P/E ratio of 87.98, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.84 and a beta of 1.18. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 51.89, a quick ratio of 0.50 and a current ratio of 1.97. Essentra has a fifty-two week low of GBX 105.60 ($1.37) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 191.80 ($2.49).

Essentra (LON:ESNT) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, March 19th. The company reported GBX 8.50 ($0.11) earnings per share for the quarter. Essentra had a return on equity of 1.28% and a net margin of 1.13%. On average, research analysts anticipate that Essentra will post 524.137931 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Essentra

In other Essentra news, insider Steve Good bought 35,000 shares of Essentra stock in a transaction on Thursday, March 20th. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 109 ($1.41) per share, for a total transaction of £38,150 ($49,468.36). Company insiders own 0.99% of the company’s stock.

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