Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) Insider Richard Taylor Buys 1,800 Shares of Stock

Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) insider Richard Taylor bought 1,800 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, June 9th. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 2,636 ($35.59) per share, for a total transaction of £47,448 ($64,058.32).

Severn Trent Price Performance

Shares of SVT opened at GBX 2,706 ($36.53) on Wednesday. Severn Trent PLC has a 12-month low of GBX 2,323 ($31.36) and a 12-month high of GBX 2,807 ($37.90). The business’s fifty day moving average is GBX 2,678.76 and its 200 day moving average is GBX 2,568.85. The company has a quick ratio of 0.73, a current ratio of 2.14 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 450.94. The stock has a market cap of £8.08 billion, a P/E ratio of 45.17, a P/E/G ratio of 4.69 and a beta of 0.38.

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

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of brokerages recently issued reports on SVT. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of Severn Trent in a report on Thursday, March 6th. 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 report 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.