PageGroup plc (LON:PAGE - Get Free Report)'s stock price hit a new 52-week low during trading on Thursday . The stock traded as low as GBX 290 ($3.74) and last traded at GBX 293.60 ($3.79), with a volume of 144595 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at GBX 296.60 ($3.82).
PageGroup Stock Down 4.8 %
The stock's fifty day moving average is GBX 323.52 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 344.02. The company has a current ratio of 1.60, a quick ratio of 1.77 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 40.35. The firm has a market cap of £868.27 million, a P/E ratio of 17.15, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.98 and a beta of 1.11.
PageGroup (LON:PAGE - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, March 6th. The company reported GBX 9.10 ($0.12) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. PageGroup had a return on equity of 17.47% and a net margin of 2.71%. As a group, research analysts anticipate that PageGroup plc will post 23.5923567 earnings per share for the current year.
PageGroup Increases Dividend
The firm also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Monday, June 23rd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 15th will be given a dividend of GBX 11.75 ($0.15) per share. This represents a dividend yield of 3.44%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 15th. This is an increase from PageGroup's previous dividend of $5.36. PageGroup's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 105.21%.
Insider Buying and Selling
In other PageGroup news, insider Nick Kirk sold 29,749 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Monday, March 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 336 ($4.33), for a total transaction of £99,956.64 ($128,893.15). 5.42% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
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PageGroup Changes Lives…
That's our PageGroup Purpose, delivered by c. 8,500 people in 37 countries, with a gross profit of over £1,076.3mm in 2022. Our four core PageGroup brands are supported by specialised recruitment teams operating across 25 disciplines.
As a FTSE 250 company, a lot has changed since we were set up in 1976 and the Group continues to grow and evolve.
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