Insider Buying: Harworth Group plc (LON:HWG) Insider Buys 113 Shares of Stock

Harworth Group plc (LON:HWG) insider Lynda Shillaw acquired 113 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, April 15th. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 133 ($1.66) per share, with a total value of £150.29 ($187.09).

Harworth Group Price Performance

LON:HWG opened at GBX 131 ($1.63) on Wednesday. The company has a market cap of £423.82 million, a PE ratio of 1,091.67 and a beta of 0.74. Harworth Group plc has a twelve month low of GBX 95.40 ($1.19) and a twelve month high of GBX 142.28 ($1.77). The company has a current ratio of 2.87, a quick ratio of 1.13 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 10.06. The company’s 50 day moving average is GBX 131.55 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 119.65.

Harworth Group Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, May 24th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, April 25th will be paid a GBX 1.02 ($0.01) dividend. This represents a yield of 0.76%. This is a positive change from Harworth Group’s previous dividend of $0.44. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 25th. Harworth Group’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 833.33%.

About Harworth Group

Harworth Group plc operates as a land and property regeneration company in the North of England and the Midlands. It operates through two segments, Income Generation and Capital Growth. The Income Generation segment focuses on generating rental returns from the investment portfolio; rental returns and royalties from energy generation, environmental technologies, and the agricultural portfolio; and income-generating streams from recycled aggregates and secondary coal products.