Essentra (LON:ESNT) Issues Quarterly Earnings Results

Essentra (LON:ESNT) posted its earnings results on Wednesday. The company reported GBX 8.50 ($0.11) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, Digital Look Earnings reports. Essentra had a return on equity of 1.28% and a net margin of 1.13%.

Essentra Trading Down 3.1 %

ESNT opened at GBX 106.76 ($1.38) on Friday. The firm’s fifty day moving average is GBX 119.85 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 138.04. The firm has a market cap of £306.86 million, a PE ratio of 87.95, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.84 and a beta of 1.18. Essentra has a twelve month low of GBX 105.60 ($1.37) and a twelve month high of GBX 191.80 ($2.49). The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 51.89, a quick ratio of 0.50 and a current ratio of 1.97.

Essentra Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, July 3rd. Investors of record on Thursday, May 15th will be issued a dividend of GBX 1.55 ($0.02) per share. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 15th. This represents a yield of 1.41%. This is a boost from Essentra’s previous dividend of $1.25. Essentra’s payout ratio is currently 329.52%.

Insider Activity

In other Essentra news, insider Steve Good acquired 35,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 20th. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 109 ($1.41) per share, for a total transaction of £38,150 ($49,468.36). 0.99% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

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