St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) Receives Average Rating of “Moderate Buy” from Analysts

Shares of St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) have been assigned an average recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the seven ratings firms that are covering the stock, MarketBeat reports. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have given a buy rating to the company. The average 1-year target price among brokers that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is GBX 1,645.14.

STJ has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. UBS Group reissued a “neutral” rating and set a GBX 1,475 price objective on shares of St. James’s Place in a research note on Friday, January 16th. Citigroup lifted their price target on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,590 to GBX 1,790 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, January 16th. Royal Bank Of Canada upped their price objective on shares of St. James’s Place from GBX 1,350 to GBX 1,375 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a report on Monday, February 2nd. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price objective on shares of St. James’s Place from GBX 1,725 to GBX 1,726 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, January 21st.

St. James’s Place Trading Up 1.0%

Shares of St. James’s Place stock opened at GBX 1,284 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 55.10, a current ratio of 0.60 and a quick ratio of 3.85. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is GBX 1,416.51 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 1,342.94. The stock has a market cap of £6.68 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.62, a P/E/G ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.23. St. James’s Place has a 1-year low of GBX 741.40 and a 1-year high of GBX 1,575.50.

About St. James’s Place

We plan, grow and protect the financial futures of over one million clients across the UK by providing holistic advice-led wealth management, delivered exclusively by the Partnership, our group of more than 4,900 highly skilled advisers.

We offer an integrated client proposition, through which we provide financial advice, investment product wrappers such as pensions, investment bonds and ISAs, and offer our own range of investment funds and portfolios.