Kier Group plc (LON:KIE - Get Free Report)'s share price hit a new 52-week low on Wednesday . The company traded as low as GBX 118.80 ($1.54) and last traded at GBX 123.60 ($1.60), with a volume of 108632555 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 140 ($1.81).
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
Separately, Berenberg Bank reissued a "buy" rating and issued a GBX 210 ($2.72) price objective on shares of Kier Group in a research report on Thursday, January 23rd.
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Kier Group Stock Performance
The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 302.83, a quick ratio of 0.69 and a current ratio of 0.88. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 145.90 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 145.93. The stock has a market cap of £532.05 million, a PE ratio of 12.44, a PEG ratio of 0.29 and a beta of 1.14.
Kier Group (LON:KIE - Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, March 11th. The company reported GBX 8.70 ($0.11) EPS for the quarter. Kier Group had a net margin of 1.09% and a return on equity of 8.23%. Equities analysts anticipate that Kier Group plc will post 20.4913295 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Insider Buying and Selling at Kier Group
In other Kier Group news, insider Matthew Lester bought 16,310 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 11th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 123 ($1.59) per share, with a total value of £20,061.30 ($25,972.68). 6.07% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
About Kier Group
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Kier Group is a leading infrastructure services, construction and property group based in the UK.
Our purpose is to sustainably deliver infrastructure which is vital to the UK with a vision is to be the UK's leading infrastructure services and construction company.
We operate through three segments; Infrastructure Services, Construction and Property.
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