Insider Buying: Avon Protection (LON:AVON) Insider Purchases 9 Shares of Stock

Avon Protection plc (LON:AVON) insider Jos Sclater acquired 9 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, July 7th. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 1,788 per share, with a total value of £160.92.

Jos Sclater also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Friday, June 5th, Jos Sclater purchased 8 shares of Avon Protection stock. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 1,687 per share, with a total value of £134.96.
• On Tuesday, May 5th, Jos Sclater bought 9 shares of Avon Protection stock. The shares were purchased at an average price of GBX 1,734 per share, for a total transaction of £156.06.

Avon Protection Stock Performance

LON:AVON traded down GBX 12 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, reaching GBX 1,778. 49,397 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 315,421. The firm has a market capitalization of £523.66 million, a PE ratio of 29.88, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.85 and a beta of 0.23. Avon Protection plc has a one year low of GBX 1,458 and a one year high of GBX 2,230. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 48.31, a quick ratio of 0.85 and a current ratio of 3.28. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is GBX 1,697.33 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 1,764.90.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, Jefferies Financial Group reissued a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 2,390 price objective on shares of Avon Protection in a research note on Wednesday, July 1st. One analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating and one has issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, Avon Protection presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of GBX 2,195.

Avon Protection Company Profile