Severn Trent PLC (SVT.L) – What Are Investment Firms Saying About This Stock?

Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) has been assigned an average recommendation of “Reduce” from the six brokerages that are currently covering the company, Marketbeat.com reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation and five have assigned a hold recommendation to the company. The average twelve-month price objective among brokers that have covered the stock in the last year is GBX 7,447.50.

Separately, Jefferies Financial Group reissued a “hold” rating and issued a GBX 3,220 target price on shares of Severn Trent in a report on Monday, August 3rd.

Severn Trent Stock Performance

LON:SVT opened at GBX 3,284 on Friday. The company has a market cap of £9.92 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.68, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.69 and a beta of 0.54. The company has a quick ratio of 0.73, a current ratio of 1.39 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 596.63. Severn Trent has a 52 week low of GBX 2,381 and a 52 week high of GBX 3,335. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 3,098.64 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 3,056.07.

About Severn Trent

As one of Britain’s largest water companies, we supply fresh, clean drinking water to over nine million people across our region – around two billion litres every day. Once used, we collect, clean, and treat the water before safely returning it 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 inflation-linked dividends. The UK’s regulatory model provides a high degree of certainty over five-year periods.