Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (LON:SST) Insider Acquires £67,500 in Stock

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (LON:SST) insider Jeremy Whitley bought 25,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, January 21st. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 270 per share, for a total transaction of £67,500.

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

• On Wednesday, January 21st, Jeremy Whitley bought 20,000 shares of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos stock. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 270 per share, with a total value of £54,000.

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos Price Performance

Shares of SST remained flat at GBX 270 during mid-day trading on Wednesday. 304,963 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 270,446. The company has a market cap of £306.38 million, a P/E ratio of -39.42 and a beta of 0.37. The business’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 277.08 and its 200 day moving average price is GBX 287.16. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has a one year low of GBX 242.60 and a one year high of GBX 310.

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (LON:SST) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, November 12th. The company reported GBX 4.51 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos had a net margin of 77.82% and a return on equity of 28.42%.

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos Company Profile

The Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust plc is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by First Sentier Investors (UK) Funds Limited. It is co-managed by First State Investment Management (UK) Limited. The fund invests in the public equity markets of Asia, excluding Japan and Australasia. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund primarily invests in stocks of small-cap companies having market capitalizations below $1.5 billion. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the MSCI AC Asia (ex Japan) Index.