Insider Selling: Beazley plc (LON:BEZ) Insider Sells 27,772 Shares of Stock

Beazley plc (LON:BEZ - Get Free Report) insider Adrian Cox sold 27,772 shares of Beazley stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, March 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 902 ($11.61), for a total transaction of £250,503.44 ($322,522.78).

Beazley Stock Up 1.0 %

Shares of LON BEZ traded up GBX 8.94 ($0.12) during trading on Monday, hitting GBX 895.94 ($11.54). The company had a trading volume of 2,877,541 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,718,350. The firm has a market capitalization of £6.89 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 5.61, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.57 and a beta of 0.68. Beazley plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 611 ($7.87) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 925 ($11.91). The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 836.90 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 798.65.

Beazley (LON:BEZ - Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, March 4th. The company reported GBX 137 ($1.76) earnings per share for the quarter. Beazley had a net margin of 22.82% and a return on equity of 32.60%. On average, analysts anticipate that Beazley plc will post 101.6172507 earnings per share for the current year.

Beazley announced that its board has initiated a share repurchase plan on Tuesday, March 4th that authorizes the company to repurchase $0.00 in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are generally a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

About Beazley

Beazley plc provides risk insurance and reinsurance solutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, and internationally. It operates through Cyber Risks, Digital, MAP Risks, Property Risks, and Specialty Risks segments. The Cyber Risk segment underwrites cyber and technology risks.