Insider Buying: St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) Insider Purchases £24,998.22 in Stock

St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) insider Evelyn Bourke bought 2,374 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, July 31st. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 1,053 per share, for a total transaction of £24,998.22.

St. James’s Place Trading Down 0.8%

STJ stock traded down GBX 8 during trading on Friday, hitting GBX 1,052. 7,171,414 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 23,627,572. The business has a 50-day moving average price of GBX 1,170.14 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 1,259.13. The stock has a market capitalization of £5.35 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.65, a PEG ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.02. St. James’s Place plc has a 52-week low of GBX 1,038.75 and a 52-week high of GBX 1,575.50.

St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 29th. The company reported GBX 43.30 EPS for the quarter. St. James’s Place had a net margin of 1.25% and a return on equity of 37.02%. On average, equities research analysts anticipate that St. James’s Place plc will post 67.9947461 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

STJ has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Royal Bank Of Canada reaffirmed a “sector perform” rating and issued a GBX 1,400 target price on shares of St. James’s Place in a research report on Thursday, April 30th. Berenberg Bank restated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 1,800 price objective on shares of St. James’s Place in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a GBX 2,050 price objective on shares of St. James’s Place in a report on Thursday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut their target price on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,686 to GBX 1,663 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, April 30th. Finally, Citigroup boosted their target price on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,790 to GBX 1,830 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 14th. Five analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, St. James’s Place currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of GBX 1,702.57.

St. James’s Place Company Profile

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.