Insider Selling: Relx Plc (LON:REL) Insider Sells 7,521 Shares of Stock

Relx Plc (LON:REL - Get Free Report) insider Erik Engstrom sold 7,521 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, February 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 4,060 ($51.30), for a total value of £305,352.60 ($385,789.77).

Erik Engstrom also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Friday, February 14th, Erik Engstrom sold 128,798 shares of Relx stock. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 4,073 ($51.46), for a total value of £5,245,942.54 ($6,627,849.07).

Relx Stock Down 2.0 %

LON REL traded down GBX 78 ($0.99) during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching GBX 3,906 ($49.35). 3,116,570 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 3,064,240. Relx Plc has a 1-year low of GBX 3,218 ($40.66) and a 1-year high of GBX 4,205 ($53.13). The company has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 3,857.36 and a 200-day simple moving average of GBX 3,690.51. The company has a current ratio of 0.48, a quick ratio of 0.45 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 216.69. The company has a market cap of £72.23 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 38.99, a P/E/G ratio of 2.69 and a beta of 0.48.

Relx (LON:REL - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 13th. The company reported GBX 120.10 ($1.52) earnings per share for the quarter. Relx had a return on equity of 56.71% and a net margin of 20.34%. As a group, equities research analysts expect that Relx Plc will post 134.0035675 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, JPMorgan Chase & Co. restated an "overweight" rating and set a GBX 4,770 ($60.27) price objective on shares of Relx in a research note on Tuesday.

About Relx

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. The Group serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs over 33,000 people, of whom almost half are in North America. The shares of RELX PLC, the parent company, are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York Stock Exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX.