St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) Given Consensus Rating of “Moderate Buy” by Brokerages

St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) has been assigned an average rating of “Moderate Buy” from the seven analysts that are currently covering the stock, MarketBeat.com reports. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and five have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 1 year target price among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is GBX 1,499.29.

A number of brokerages have recently commented on STJ. Royal Bank Of Canada lifted their price target on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,350 to GBX 1,375 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Monday, February 2nd. Citigroup raised their price objective on shares of St. James’s Place from GBX 1,790 to GBX 1,870 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, March 4th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut their target price on shares of St. James’s Place from GBX 725 to GBX 625 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday. Finally, UBS Group reissued a “neutral” rating and set a GBX 1,475 target price on shares of St. James’s Place in a report on Friday, January 16th.

St. James’s Place Stock Performance

LON STJ opened at GBX 1,280.50 on Thursday. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 1,386.72 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 1,344.15. The stock has a market cap of £6.64 billion, a PE ratio of 12.96, a PEG ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.02. St. James’s Place has a fifty-two week low of GBX 741.40 and a fifty-two week high of GBX 1,575.50.

St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The company reported GBX 99.90 EPS for the quarter. St. James’s Place had a return on equity of 37.33% and a net margin of 1.76%. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that St. James’s Place will post 67.9947461 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

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.