Alison Brittain Purchases 12,500 Shares of Dunelm Group (LON:DNLM) Stock

Dunelm Group plc (LON:DNLM) insider Alison Brittain acquired 12,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, May 7th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 764 per share, for a total transaction of £95,500.

Dunelm Group Stock Performance

Shares of DNLM stock traded down GBX 7.50 during trading hours on Friday, hitting GBX 757. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 15,994,067 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,920,113. The company has a 50 day moving average of GBX 841.27 and a 200 day moving average of GBX 988.48. Dunelm Group plc has a 12-month low of GBX 727.94 and a 12-month high of GBX 1,249. The stock has a market cap of £1.52 billion, a PE ratio of 10.30, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of -10.32 and a beta of 0.96. The company has a current ratio of 0.83, a quick ratio of 0.16 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 175.79.

Dunelm Group (LON:DNLM) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February 10th. The company reported GBX 42 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Dunelm Group had a net margin of 8.29% and a return on equity of 105.88%. On average, sell-side analysts forecast that Dunelm Group plc will post 77.0957096 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

DNLM has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Shore Capital Group reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Dunelm Group in a report on Thursday, April 16th. Panmure Gordon reduced their target price on shares of Dunelm Group from GBX 995 to GBX 830 and set a “sell” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, January 19th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reduced their target price on shares of Dunelm Group from GBX 1,360 to GBX 1,200 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, January 16th. Berenberg Bank cut their price objective on shares of Dunelm Group from GBX 1,425 to GBX 1,350 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, April 17th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group restated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 1,075 price objective on shares of Dunelm Group in a research report on Thursday, April 16th. Seven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, one has given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of GBX 1,199.44.

About Dunelm Group

Dunelm is the UK’s market leader in homewares with a purpose ‘to help create the joy of truly feeling at home, now and for generations to come’. Its specialist customer proposition offers value, quality, choice and style across an extensive range of c.70,000 products, spanning multiple homewares and furniture categories and including services such as Made to Measure window treatments.

The business was founded in 1979 by the Adderley family, beginning as a curtains stall on Leicester market before expanding its store footprint.