XPS Pensions Group (LON:XPS) Hits New 1-Year High - Time to Buy?

XPS Pensions Group plc (LON:XPS - Get Free Report)'s stock price reached a new 52-week high on Wednesday . The company traded as high as GBX 341 ($4.45) and last traded at GBX 337 ($4.40), with a volume of 199334 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at GBX 308 ($4.02).

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities analysts have commented on XPS shares. Shore Capital restated a "buy" rating on shares of XPS Pensions Group in a research report on Wednesday. Canaccord Genuity Group restated a "buy" rating and issued a GBX 332 ($4.34) price objective on shares of XPS Pensions Group in a research report on Wednesday.

XPS Pensions Group Stock Up 14.9 %

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 17.51, a current ratio of 1.27 and a quick ratio of 1.51. The company has a market capitalization of £731.93 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 1,416.00 and a beta of 0.57. The firm's 50-day simple moving average is GBX 300.87 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 284.18.

About XPS Pensions Group

XPS Pensions Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides employee benefit consultancy and related business services in the United Kingdom. It offers pension advisory; independent consultancy; DB master trust schemes; and self-invested personal pension (SIPP) and SSAS pension services. The company also provides pension administer services, such as payroll, scheme administration, outsourcing, payroll, scheme accounting, and scam identification and protection services, as well as member communication, de-risking projects, GMP equalization, data audits and cleansing, and trustee secretarial services.