Genus plc (LON:GNS) Insider Sells £345,628.77 in Stock

Genus plc (LON:GNS - Get Free Report) insider Jorgen Kokke sold 19,967 shares of Genus stock in a transaction dated Friday, February 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 1,731 ($22.00), for a total value of £345,628.77 ($439,228.33).

Genus Stock Up 1.8 %

LON:GNS traded up GBX 32.28 ($0.41) during trading hours on Tuesday, hitting GBX 1,872.28 ($23.79). 318,908 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 140,591. Genus plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 1,424 ($18.10) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 2,155 ($27.39). The firm has a market cap of £1.23 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 155.20, a PEG ratio of 2.87 and a beta of 0.37. The company has a current ratio of 1.80, a quick ratio of 1.08 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 53.12. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of GBX 1,715.47 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 1,799.09.

Genus (LON:GNS - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 27th. The company reported GBX 39.80 ($0.51) EPS for the quarter. Genus had a net margin of 1.18% and a return on equity of 1.41%. Equities research analysts anticipate that Genus plc will post 70.9644323 earnings per share for the current year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, Shore Capital reissued a "buy" rating on shares of Genus in a research note on Wednesday, December 11th.

Genus Company Profile

Genus plc operates as an animal genetics company in North America, Latin America, the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, the Middle East, Russia, Africa, and Asia. The company operates through three segments: Genus PIC, Genus ABS, and Genus Research and Development. It sells breeding pigs and semen to breed pigs with various characteristics for pork production under the PIC brand.