Insider Buying: St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) Insider Buys £24,998.22 in Stock

St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) insider Evelyn Bourke bought 2,374 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, July 31st. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 1,053 per share, with a total value of £24,998.22.

St. James’s Place Trading Down 0.6%

Shares of STJ stock opened at GBX 1,053.50 on Monday. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 1,167.02 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 1,256.26. St. James’s Place plc has a 1 year low of GBX 1,038.75 and a 1 year high of GBX 1,575.50. The firm has a market capitalization of £5.36 billion, a P/E ratio of 10.66, a PEG ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.02.

St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 29th. The company reported GBX 43.30 EPS for the quarter. St. James’s Place had a net margin of 1.25% and a return on equity of 37.02%. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that St. James’s Place plc will post 67.9947461 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts recently commented on the company. Jefferies Financial Group reissued a “buy” rating and set a GBX 1,700 price target on shares of St. James’s Place in a research report on Wednesday, July 29th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reiterated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 2,050 price objective on shares of St. James’s Place in a research note on Thursday. Citigroup increased their price objective on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,790 to GBX 1,830 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 14th. Royal Bank Of Canada reissued a “sector perform” rating and issued a GBX 1,400 target price on shares of St. James’s Place in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered their target price on shares of St. James’s Place from GBX 1,686 to GBX 1,663 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, April 30th. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, St. James’s Place has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of GBX 1,702.57.

About St. James’s Place

We plan, grow and protect the financial futures of over one million clients across the UK by providing holistic advice-led wealth management, delivered exclusively by the Partnership, our group of more than 4,900 highly skilled advisers.

We offer an integrated client proposition, through which we provide financial advice, investment product wrappers such as pensions, investment bonds and ISAs, and offer our own range of investment funds and portfolios.