St. James's Place (STJ) Share Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

We plan, grow and protect the financial futures of nearly one million clients across the UK by providing holistic advice-led wealth management, delivered exclusively by the Partnership, our group of more than 4,800 highly skilled advisers. We offer an integrated client proposition, through which we provide financial advice, investment product wrappers such as pensions, investment bonds and ISAs, and offer our own range of investment funds and portfolios.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: 1,108 to 1,139
• 50-Day Range: 808 to 1,147
• 52-Week Range: 393.60 to 1,153.96
• Volume: 1.57 million shs
• Average Volume: 2.55 million shs
• Market Capitalization: £6.00 billion
• P/E Ratio: N/A
• Dividend Yield: 1.26%
• Price Target: GBX 784.25
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

St. James's Place Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

St. James's Place scored higher than 20% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 1.4 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

St. James's Place has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.80, and is based on 4 buy ratings, 1 hold rating, and no sell ratings.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

St. James's Place has received no research coverage in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of St. James's Place is -930.34, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of St. James's Place is -930.34, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

St. James's Place has a PEG Ratio of 1.10. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

St. James's Place has a P/B Ratio of 5.56. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for STJ.

Dividend

• Score: 0.8 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

St. James's Place pays a meaningful dividend of 1.27%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

St. James's Place does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Sustainability and ESG

• Score: 3.8 / 5
• Environmental Score: -0.39

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for STJ.

News and Social Media

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.39

News Sentiment

St. James's Place has a news sentiment score of 0.39. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.68 average news sentiment score of Financial Services companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 2 news articles for St. James's Place this week, compared to 2 articles on an average week.

MarketBeat Follows

6 people have added St. James's Place to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 200% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Insider Trading: N/A

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, St. James's Place insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

Only 0.72% of the stock of St. James's Place is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

79.63% of the stock of St. James's Place is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

STJ Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have STJ shares performed this year?

St. James' Place's stock was trading at GBX 867.27 at the beginning of 2025. Since then, STJ stock has increased by 28.0% and is now trading at GBX 1,110.
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How do I buy shares of St. James's Place?

Shares of STJ stock and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock.

What other stocks do shareholders of St. James's Place own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that St. James's Place investors own include International Personal Finance (IPF), Barclays (BARC), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Aviva (AV), Glencore (GLEN), HSBC (HSBA) and Standard Chartered (STAN).

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: LON
• Sector: Financial Services
• Industry: Asset Management
• Sub-Industry: N/A
• Current Symbol: LON:STJ
• CUSIP: N/A
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.sjp.co.uk
• Phone: +44-1285-640302
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 2,298
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Stock Price Target: GBX 784.25
• High Stock Price Target: GBX 987
• Low Stock Price Target: GBX 700
• Potential Upside/Downside: -29.3%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.80
• Research Coverage: 5 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year): GBX (1.19)
• Trailing P/E Ratio: N/A
• Forward P/E Ratio: 16.32
• P/E Growth: 1.1
• Net Income: £-6,463,744.07
• Net Margins: -0.02%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: -0.63%
• Return on Assets: 0.22%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 55.10
• Current Ratio: 0.60
• Quick Ratio: 3.85

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: £26.27 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.23
• Cash Flow: GBX 1,358.63 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 0.82
• Book Value: GBX 199.79 per share
• Price / Book: 5.56

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 540,774,372
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: £6.00 billion
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 1.23