J D Wetherspoon (LON:JDW) Insider Buys £144.62 in Stock

J D Wetherspoon plc (LON:JDW) insider Ben Whitley bought 14 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, October 16th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 1,033 per share, with a total value of £144.62.

Ben Whitley also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Tuesday, September 22nd, Ben Whitley bought 19 shares of J D Wetherspoon stock. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 818 per share, for a total transaction of £155.42.

J D Wetherspoon Price Performance

JDW opened at GBX 1,032 on Monday. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 853.54 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 729.72. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 353.03, a quick ratio of 0.19 and a current ratio of 0.23. The stock has a market capitalization of £1.09 billion, a P/E ratio of 18.17, a P/E/G ratio of 3.39 and a beta of 1.13. J D Wetherspoon plc has a 52-week low of GBX 530.50 and a 52-week high of GBX 1,039.

J D Wetherspoon (LON:JDW) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, October 2nd. The company reported GBX 51.60 EPS for the quarter. J D Wetherspoon had a net margin of 2.70% and a return on equity of 17.99%. As a group, analysts predict that J D Wetherspoon plc will post 52.85 EPS for the current year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several brokerages recently issued reports on JDW. Shore Capital Group restated a “hold” rating and issued a GBX 813 target price on shares of J D Wetherspoon in a report on Friday, October 2nd. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft lifted their target price on shares of J D Wetherspoon from GBX 460 to GBX 540 and gave the stock a “sell” rating in a research report on Friday, October 2nd. Finally, Peel Hunt reiterated a “hold” rating and set a GBX 800 target price on shares of J D Wetherspoon in a research note on Friday, October 2nd. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, two have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of GBX 748.25.

J D Wetherspoon Company Profile

J D Wetherspoon owns and operates pubs and hotels throughout the UK and Ireland. The company aims to provide customers with good-quality food and drinks, served by well-trained and friendly staff, at reasonable prices.

The pubs are individually designed, and the company aims to maintain them in excellent condition.