AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) Insider Peter Birch Buys 557 Shares

AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB - Get Free Report) insider Peter Birch bought 557 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction on Wednesday, March 5th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 413 ($5.32) per share, with a total value of £2,300.41 ($2,961.77).

Peter Birch also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Tuesday, December 17th, Peter Birch sold 25,853 shares of AJ Bell stock. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 459 ($5.91), for a total transaction of £118,665.27 ($152,781.34).

AJ Bell Stock Down 1.3 %

Shares of AJB stock traded down GBX 5.50 ($0.07) on Monday, hitting GBX 416.50 ($5.36). The company's stock had a trading volume of 866,289 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,872,764. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 6.46, a current ratio of 3.63 and a quick ratio of 7.16. AJ Bell plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 281 ($3.62) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 529 ($6.81). The firm's fifty day moving average price is GBX 435.68 and its 200-day moving average price is GBX 448.20. The stock has a market capitalization of £1.72 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 21.30, a P/E/G ratio of 5.73 and a beta of 0.99.

AJ Bell (LON:AJB - Get Free Report) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, December 5th. The company reported GBX 20.46 ($0.26) EPS for the quarter. AJ Bell had a net margin of 33.14% and a return on equity of 42.30%. Research analysts anticipate that AJ Bell plc will post 23.8118812 EPS for the current year.

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AJ Bell Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, February 7th. Investors of record on Thursday, January 9th were issued a GBX 8.25 ($0.11) dividend. This represents a yield of 1.66%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, January 9th. This is an increase from AJ Bell's previous dividend of $4.25. AJ Bell's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 61.37%.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities research analysts have issued reports on the stock. Jefferies Financial Group reissued a "buy" rating and set a GBX 565 ($7.27) target price on shares of AJ Bell in a research note on Friday, December 6th. Shore Capital reaffirmed a "hold" rating on shares of AJ Bell in a research note on Friday, December 6th. Finally, Citigroup lowered shares of AJ Bell to a "sell" rating and reduced their price objective for the company from GBX 450 ($5.79) to GBX 390 ($5.02) in a research note on Tuesday, January 7th.

AJ Bell Company Profile

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.