St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) Price Target Cut to GBX 1,686 by Analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) had its price objective lowered by JPMorgan Chase & Co. from GBX 1,711 to GBX 1,686 in a research report report published on Tuesday morning,Digital Look reports. JPMorgan Chase & Co. currently has an overweight rating on the stock.

A number of other equities analysts also recently issued reports on STJ. Citigroup dropped their price target on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,870 to GBX 1,810 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, April 16th. UBS Group restated a “neutral” rating and issued a GBX 1,475 price target on shares of St. James’s Place in a research note on Friday, January 16th. Jefferies Financial Group dropped their price target on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,800 to GBX 1,700 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, April 2nd. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada raised their price target on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,350 to GBX 1,375 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Monday, February 2nd. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of GBX 1,656.57.

St. James’s Place Stock Performance

STJ stock opened at GBX 1,275 on Tuesday. The company has a market cap of £6.55 billion, a P/E ratio of 12.90, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.04. St. James’s Place has a 1 year low of GBX 881.60 and a 1 year high of GBX 1,575.50. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 36.73, a current ratio of 3.80 and a quick ratio of 3.85. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 1,264.68 and its 200-day moving average price is GBX 1,342.48.

St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The company reported GBX 99.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. St. James’s Place had a return on equity of 37.33% and a net margin of 1.76%. On average, equities analysts forecast that St. James’s Place will post 67.9947461 earnings per share for the current year.

St. James’s Place Company Profile

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.