Harworth Group (LON:HWG) Insider Alastair Lyons CBE Acquires 31,610 Shares of Stock

Harworth Group plc (LON:HWG) insider Alastair Lyons CBE bought 31,610 shares of Harworth Group stock in a transaction on Thursday, March 19th. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 155 per share, for a total transaction of £48,995.50.

Harworth Group Stock Down 1.4%

HWG stock opened at GBX 154.75 on Friday. The company has a 50 day moving average price of GBX 165.63 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 165.62. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 24.93, a quick ratio of 1.13 and a current ratio of 457.81. The stock has a market capitalization of £501.74 million, a P/E ratio of 9.86 and a beta of 0.74. Harworth Group plc has a one year low of GBX 153.50 and a one year high of GBX 190.50.

Harworth Group (LON:HWG) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, March 17th. The company reported GBX 2.90 earnings per share for the quarter. Harworth Group had a return on equity of 1.36% and a net margin of 7.30%. As a group, sell-side analysts expect that Harworth Group plc will post 15.3212521 EPS for the current year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research analysts have recently commented on HWG shares. Berenberg Bank upped their price objective on shares of Harworth Group from GBX 201 to GBX 202 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, January 26th. Panmure Gordon reissued a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 215 target price on shares of Harworth Group in a research report on Monday, January 19th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of GBX 209.75.

Harworth Group Company Profile

Harworth Group plc is a leading sustainable regenerator of land and property for development and investment which owns, develops and manages a portfolio of over 14,000 acres of land on around 100 sites located throughout the North of England and Midlands. The Group specialises in the regeneration of large, complex sites, in particular former industrial sites, into new residential and industrial & logistics developments. Visit www.harworthgroup.com for further information.