Baltic Classifieds Group (LON:BCG) Insider Edmund Williams Purchases 222,326 Shares

Baltic Classifieds Group PLC (LON:BCG) insider Edmund Williams purchased 222,326 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, December 5th. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 180 per share, for a total transaction of £400,186.80.

Baltic Classifieds Group Stock Performance

Shares of BCG stock opened at GBX 183.40 on Tuesday. The company has a current ratio of 2.05, a quick ratio of 2.36 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 13.70. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 268.28 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 319.35. The firm has a market capitalization of £879.34 million, a PE ratio of 19.72, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.62 and a beta of 1.43. Baltic Classifieds Group PLC has a 12 month low of GBX 168 and a 12 month high of GBX 403.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities research analysts recently commented on the company. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised Baltic Classifieds Group to a “buy” rating and increased their price target for the company from GBX 366 to GBX 373 in a research report on Thursday, September 25th. Berenberg Bank lowered their target price on shares of Baltic Classifieds Group from GBX 360 to GBX 335 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, December 4th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price target on shares of Baltic Classifieds Group from GBX 194 to GBX 208 and gave the company an “underweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, December 3rd. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, one has assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Baltic Classifieds Group currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of GBX 316.50.

About Baltic Classifieds Group

Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG) is the leading online classifieds group in the Baltics, which owns and operates twelve leading vertical and generalist online classifieds portals in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. BCG’s online classifieds portfolio comprises four business lines – automotive, real estate, jobs & services and generalist.