AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) Stock Rated “Hold” by Wall Street Brokerages

AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) has been assigned a consensus rating of “Hold” from the eight research firms that are covering the firm, Marketbeat.com reports. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating on the company. The average 1 year price target among brokerages that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is GBX 1,276.25.

AJB has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Berenberg Bank reduced their target price on AJ Bell from GBX 590 to GBX 580 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, October 23rd. Jefferies Financial Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 700 price target on shares of AJ Bell in a report on Thursday, October 22nd. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reiterated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 700 target price on shares of AJ Bell in a research report on Friday, October 23rd.

AJ Bell Price Performance

Shares of AJB opened at GBX 576.50 on Friday. AJ Bell has a twelve month low of GBX 414.40 and a twelve month high of GBX 662.50. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is GBX 588.65 and its 200 day moving average price is GBX 549.44. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.73, a quick ratio of 7.16 and a current ratio of 109.52. The firm has a market cap of £2.26 billion, a PE ratio of 19.01, a PEG ratio of 5.73 and a beta of 0.87.

About AJ Bell

Established in 1995, AJ Bell is one of the largest investment platforms in the UK, operating at scale in both the advised and direct-to-consumer markets.

Our purpose is to help people invest by providing them with easy access to Pensions, ISAs and General investment accounts, great customer service and competitive charges.

Our two core platform propositions are AJ Bell in the D2C market and AJ Bell Investcentre in the advised market, which both provide access to a broad investment range including shares and other instruments traded on the major stock exchanges around the world, as well as all mainstream collective investments available in the UK and our own range of AJ Bell funds.