St. James's Place plc (LON:STJ - Get Free Report) declared a dividend on Thursday, February 27th, DividendData.Co.Uk reports. Shareholders of record on Thursday, April 10th will be paid a dividend of GBX 12 ($0.16) per share on Friday, May 23rd. This represents a yield of 1.17%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 10th. This is a 100.0% increase from St. James's Place's previous dividend of $6.00. The official announcement can be seen at this link.
St. James's Place Stock Performance
Shares of LON STJ traded down GBX 37 ($0.48) during midday trading on Friday, hitting GBX 823.40 ($10.77). 2,206,305 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 7,923,182. The firm has a fifty day moving average of GBX 1,015.82 and a 200 day moving average of GBX 900.09. St. James's Place has a 1 year low of GBX 393.60 ($5.15) and a 1 year high of GBX 1,153.96 ($15.10). The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 55.10, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a current ratio of 0.60. The stock has a market capitalization of £4.45 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -690.13, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.23.
St. James's Place (LON:STJ - Get Free Report) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, February 27th. The company reported GBX 73 ($0.96) EPS for the quarter. St. James's Place had a negative net margin of 0.02% and a negative return on equity of 0.63%. On average, analysts forecast that St. James's Place will post 67.9947461 earnings per share for the current year.
Insider Transactions at St. James's Place
In related news, insider Rooney Anand acquired 10,509 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, March 6th. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 1,032 ($13.50) per share, for a total transaction of £108,452.88 ($141,898.31). 0.72% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.
About St. James's Place
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We plan, grow and protect the financial futures of over one million clients across the UK by providing holistic advice-led wealth management, delivered exclusively by the Partnership, our group of more than 4,900 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.
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