RWS Holdings plc (LON:RWS) Insider Julie Southern Buys 74,611 Shares of Stock

RWS Holdings plc (LON:RWS) insider Julie Southern acquired 74,611 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, May 1st. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 67 ($0.89) per share, for a total transaction of £49,989.37 ($66,413.41).

RWS Stock Up 1.5 %

RWS stock opened at GBX 68 ($0.90) on Friday. RWS Holdings plc has a 1-year low of GBX 60.80 ($0.81) and a 1-year high of GBX 212 ($2.82). The firm has a market capitalization of £250.79 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -6.76, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.43 and a beta of 0.76. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 112.93 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 141.50. The company has a current ratio of 1.76, a quick ratio of 1.43 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 11.29.

RWS Increases Dividend

The company also recently declared a dividend, which was paid on Friday, February 14th. Investors of record on Thursday, January 16th were given a dividend of GBX 9.80 ($0.13) per share. This is a positive change from RWS’s previous dividend of $2.40. This represents a dividend yield of 3.96%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, January 16th. RWS’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently -119.36%.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, Shore Capital reaffirmed an “under review” rating on shares of RWS in a research note on Thursday, April 24th.

About RWS

RWS Holdings plc is a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property services. Through content transformation and multilingual data analysis, our unique combination of technology and cultural expertise helps our clients to grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language.
Our purpose is unlocking global understanding.