St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) Receives GBX 1,695.43 Average PT from Analysts

St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) has been assigned a consensus recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the seven research firms that are presently covering the company, MarketBeat Ratings reports. Two analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and five have issued a buy recommendation on the company. The average 1 year price target among analysts that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is GBX 1,695.43.

A number of equities analysts recently issued reports on STJ shares. Citigroup raised their target price on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,790 to GBX 1,830 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 14th. Berenberg Bank reiterated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 1,800 price target on shares of St. James’s Place in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Royal Bank Of Canada reissued a “sector perform” rating and issued a GBX 1,400 price objective on shares of St. James’s Place in a report on Thursday, April 30th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reduced their price objective on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,686 to GBX 1,663 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft decreased their target price on St. James’s Place from GBX 2,050 to GBX 2,000 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, June 24th.

Insider Transactions at St. James’s Place

In other St. James’s Place news, insider Penny James purchased 8,418 shares of St. James’s Place stock in a transaction on Monday, May 11th. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 1,182 per share, with a total value of £99,500.76. Corporate insiders own 1.21% of the company’s stock.

St. James’s Place Trading Up 0.7%

LON:STJ opened at GBX 1,073.33 on Wednesday. St. James’s Place has a 12 month low of GBX 1,050 and a 12 month high of GBX 1,575.50. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 1,178.01 and a 200-day simple moving average of GBX 1,270.63. The company has a current ratio of 3.80, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 36.73. The company has a market capitalization of £5.46 billion, a P/E ratio of 10.86, a PEG ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.02.

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.