Alistair R. Cox Buys 876 Shares of Relx Plc (LON:REL) Stock

Relx Plc (LON:REL - Get Free Report) insider Alistair R. Cox acquired 876 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Thursday, April 24th. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 3,970 ($53.34) per share, for a total transaction of £34,777.20 ($46,724.71).

Relx Price Performance

Shares of LON:REL traded up GBX 1.45 ($0.02) during trading hours on Tuesday, hitting GBX 3,961.45 ($53.22). 2,976,871 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 18,235,020. The company has a market cap of £73.26 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 39.54, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.69 and a beta of 0.48. Relx Plc has a 52 week low of GBX 3,259 ($43.79) and a 52 week high of GBX 4,205 ($56.50). The company's fifty day simple moving average is GBX 3,819.15 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 3,779.80. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 216.69, a quick ratio of 0.45 and a current ratio of 0.48.

Relx (LON:REL - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 13th. The company reported GBX 120.10 ($1.61) earnings per share for the quarter. Relx had a return on equity of 56.71% and a net margin of 20.34%. As a group, equities analysts anticipate that Relx Plc will post 134.0035675 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Relx Increases Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, June 19th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 8th will be given a dividend of GBX 448 ($6.02) per share. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 8th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.19%. This is a positive change from Relx's previous dividend of $18.20. Relx's dividend payout ratio is currently 59.89%.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, JPMorgan Chase & Co. reiterated an "overweight" rating and set a GBX 4,770 ($64.09) target price on shares of Relx in a research note on Tuesday, February 18th.

Relx Company Profile

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. The Group serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs over 33,000 people, of whom almost half are in North America. The shares of RELX PLC, the parent company, are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York Stock Exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX.