Baltic Classifieds Group (LON:BCG) Reaches New 12-Month High - Still a Buy?

Baltic Classifieds Group PLC (LON:BCG - Get Free Report)'s share price hit a new 52-week high during trading on Wednesday . The stock traded as high as GBX 403 ($5.07) and last traded at GBX 365.50 ($4.60), with a volume of 5210115 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at GBX 344.50 ($4.34).

Baltic Classifieds Group Trading Down 0.7 %

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 13.70, a quick ratio of 2.36 and a current ratio of 2.05. The firm has a 50-day moving average of GBX 328.94 and a 200-day moving average of GBX 311.94. The firm has a market capitalization of £2.04 billion, a P/E ratio of 53.44, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.62 and a beta of 1.43.

Baltic Classifieds Group Cuts Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Friday, January 24th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 12th were paid a dividend of €0.01 ($0.01) per share. This represents a yield of 0.29%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, December 12th. Baltic Classifieds Group's payout ratio is 44.97%.

Insider Buying and Selling at Baltic Classifieds Group

In other news, insider Lina Mačienė sold 310,717 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, February 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 344 ($4.33), for a total value of £1,068,866.48 ($1,345,332.26). Also, insider Justinas Šimkus sold 1,250,637 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Friday, December 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 321 ($4.04), for a total value of £4,014,544.77 ($5,052,919.79). Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 3,821,625 shares of company stock worth $1,249,334,078. 8.91% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Baltic Classifieds Group Company Profile

Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG) is the leading online classifieds group in the Baltics, which owns and operates twelve leading vertical and generalist online classifieds portals in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. BCG's online classifieds portfolio comprises four business lines – automotive, real estate, jobs & services and generalist.