Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) Insider Purchases £7,959 in Stock

Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) insider Thomas (Tom) Delay purchased 300 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 9th. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 2,653 ($36.12) per share, with a total value of £7,959 ($10,835.94).

Severn Trent Price Performance

SVT stock opened at GBX 2,727.42 ($37.13) on Friday. The business’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 2,685.64 and its 200 day moving average price is GBX 2,568.74. Severn Trent PLC has a 12-month low of GBX 2,323 ($31.63) and a 12-month high of GBX 2,807 ($38.22). The company has a market capitalization of £8.14 billion, a PE ratio of 45.52, a P/E/G ratio of 4.69 and a beta of 0.38. The company has a current ratio of 2.14, a quick ratio of 0.73 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 450.94.

Severn Trent (LON:SVT) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 21st. The company reported GBX 112.10 ($1.53) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Severn Trent had a net margin of 6.00% and a return on equity of 10.40%. On average, sell-side analysts anticipate that Severn Trent PLC will post 107.3706004 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several research analysts have weighed in on SVT shares. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reaffirmed an “overweight” rating on shares of Severn Trent in a research note on Thursday, March 6th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft lowered their price objective on shares of Severn Trent from GBX 2,700 ($36.76) to GBX 2,600 ($35.40) and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, March 6th.

About Severn Trent

As one of Britain’s largest water companies, we provide over eight million people across our region with fresh, clean drinking water – about two billion litres every day. And when they’ve finished with it, we take it away again then clean and treat it before returning it safely back to the environment.

We are one of only three listed water stocks in the UK, offering a valuable combination of reliable earnings, long term asset growth and an inflation-linked dividend.