Kier Group plc to Issue Dividend of GBX 2 (LON:KIE)

Kier Group plc (LON:KIE - Get Free Report) declared a dividend on Tuesday, March 11th, DividendData.Co.Uk reports. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 24th will be paid a dividend of GBX 2 ($0.03) per share on Monday, June 2nd. This represents a dividend yield of 1.66%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 24th. The official announcement can be viewed at this link.

Kier Group Price Performance

LON:KIE traded up GBX 1.80 ($0.02) during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting GBX 136.80 ($1.82). The company's stock had a trading volume of 250,753 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,281,573. The company has a current ratio of 0.88, a quick ratio of 0.69 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 302.83. The stock has a fifty day moving average of GBX 132.57 and a 200-day moving average of GBX 141.17. The company has a market capitalization of £588.87 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.77, a P/E/G ratio of 0.29 and a beta of 1.14. Kier Group has a fifty-two week low of GBX 107.20 ($1.43) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 163.27 ($2.18).

Kier Group (LON:KIE - Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, March 11th. The company reported GBX 8.70 ($0.12) EPS for the quarter. Kier Group had a return on equity of 8.23% and a net margin of 1.09%. As a group, equities analysts forecast that Kier Group will post 20.4913295 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity at Kier Group

In other Kier Group news, insider Matthew Lester acquired 16,310 shares of Kier Group stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 11th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 123 ($1.64) per share, with a total value of £20,061.30 ($26,759.10). 6.07% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Separately, Berenberg Bank restated a "buy" rating and issued a GBX 210 ($2.80) price objective on shares of Kier Group in a research report on Thursday, January 23rd.

Kier Group Company Profile

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.