Helen Miles Sells 3,233 Shares of Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) Stock

Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) insider Helen Miles sold 3,233 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 2,695 ($36.57), for a total transaction of £87,129.35 ($118,237.68).

Severn Trent Price Performance

Shares of Severn Trent stock traded down GBX 8.87 ($0.12) on Tuesday, hitting GBX 2,685.14 ($36.44). The company had a trading volume of 678,718 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,003,186. Severn Trent PLC has a 52 week low of GBX 2,323 ($31.52) and a 52 week high of GBX 2,807 ($38.09). The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 450.94, a current ratio of 2.14 and a quick ratio of 0.73. The company has a market cap of £8.02 billion, a PE ratio of 44.82, a PEG ratio of 4.69 and a beta of 0.38. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of GBX 2,692.15 and a 200-day simple moving average of GBX 2,567.87.

Severn Trent (LON:SVT) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 21st. The company reported GBX 112.10 ($1.52) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Severn Trent had a return on equity of 10.40% and a net margin of 6.00%. Research analysts expect that Severn Trent PLC will post 107.3706004 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of analysts have issued reports on the company. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reduced their price objective on Severn Trent from GBX 2,700 ($36.64) to GBX 2,600 ($35.28) and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, March 6th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. restated an “overweight” rating on shares of Severn Trent in a report on Thursday, March 6th.

Severn Trent Company Profile

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.