Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) Insider Nick Hampton Buys 1,500 Shares of Stock

Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) insider Nick Hampton bought 1,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, June 9th. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 2,640 ($35.64) per share, for a total transaction of £39,600 ($53,462.94).

Severn Trent Price Performance

Shares of SVT stock opened at GBX 2,706 ($36.53) on Wednesday. Severn Trent PLC has a fifty-two week low of GBX 2,323 ($31.36) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 2,807 ($37.90). The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 450.94, a quick ratio of 0.73 and a current ratio of 2.14. The firm has a market capitalization of £8.08 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 45.17, a PEG ratio of 4.69 and a beta of 0.38. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 2,678.76 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 2,568.85.

Severn Trent (LON:SVT) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, May 21st. The company reported GBX 112.10 ($1.51) EPS for the quarter. Severn Trent had a net margin of 6.00% and a return on equity of 10.40%. As a group, equities analysts forecast that Severn Trent PLC will post 107.3706004 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities analysts have issued reports on SVT shares. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft cut their target price on Severn Trent from GBX 2,700 ($36.45) to GBX 2,600 ($35.10) and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, March 6th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of Severn Trent in a research note on Thursday, March 6th.

About Severn Trent

As one of Britain’s largest water companies, we provide over eight million people across our region with fresh, clean drinking water – about two billion litres every day. And when they’ve finished with it, we take it away again then clean and treat it before returning it safely back to the environment.

We are one of only three listed water stocks in the UK, offering a valuable combination of reliable earnings, long term asset growth and an inflation-linked dividend.