Jaime Gilinski Bacal Buys 500,000 Shares of Metro Bank (LON:MTRO) Stock

Metro Bank Holdings PLC (LON:MTRO) insider Jaime Gilinski Bacal purchased 500,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, December 23rd. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 121 per share, for a total transaction of £605,000.

Metro Bank Trading Up 1.5%

LON MTRO opened at GBX 121 on Monday. The company has a market capitalization of £814.68 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 7.71 and a beta of 2.33. Metro Bank Holdings PLC has a 1-year low of GBX 76.40 and a 1-year high of GBX 138.80. The stock’s 50 day moving average is GBX 112.19 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 119.81.

Metro Bank (LON:MTRO) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, December 16th. The company reported GBX 4.50 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Metro Bank had a negative net margin of 3.30% and a negative return on equity of 2.18%. On average, analysts predict that Metro Bank Holdings PLC will post 521.5384615 earnings per share for the current year.

About Metro Bank

Metro Bank Holdings PLC operates as the bank holding company for Metro Bank PLC that provides various banking products and services in the United Kingdom. It offers personal banking products and services, including current, cash, and foreign currency accounts; savings; residential and buy-to-let mortgages; overdrafts; credit cards; pet insurance; and safe deposit box services. The company also provides business banking products and services comprising business bank, commercial and community current, foreign currency, and insolvency practitioner accounts; deposit accounts, such as business and community instant access deposit, business notice, client premium and flexible client term deposit, and business and community fixed term deposit accounts; insurance products; and business and commercial loans and overdrafts, asset and invoice financing, bounce back loans, business credit cards, and recovery loan schemes services.