Kier Group plc (KIE) To Go Ex-Dividend on April 24th

Kier Group plc (LON:KIE) announced a dividend on Tuesday, March 11th, DividendData.Co.Uk reports. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 24th will be given a dividend of GBX 2 ($0.03) per share on Monday, June 2nd. This represents a dividend yield of 1.66%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 24th. The official announcement can be viewed at this link.

Kier Group Trading Up 2.3 %

Shares of LON KIE opened at GBX 134.40 ($1.80) on Tuesday. The stock has a market capitalization of £578.54 million, a P/E ratio of 13.53, a PEG ratio of 0.29 and a beta of 1.14. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 302.83, a current ratio of 0.88 and a quick ratio of 0.69. The business’s 50 day moving average is GBX 133.66 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 141.22. Kier Group has a 1-year low of GBX 107.20 ($1.43) and a 1-year high of GBX 163.27 ($2.18).

Kier Group (LON:KIE) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, March 11th. The company reported GBX 8.70 ($0.12) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Kier Group had a net margin of 1.09% and a return on equity of 8.23%. As a group, research analysts expect that Kier Group will post 20.4913295 EPS for the current year.

Insider Activity at Kier Group

In related news, insider Matthew Lester bought 16,310 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 11th. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 123 ($1.65) per share, for a total transaction of £20,061.30 ($26,845.04). 6.07% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, Berenberg Bank reiterated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 210 ($2.81) price objective on shares of Kier Group in a research note on Thursday, January 23rd.

Kier Group Company Profile

Kier Group is a leading infrastructure services, construction and property group based in the UK.

Our purpose is to sustainably deliver infrastructure which is vital to the UK with a vision is to be the UK’s leading infrastructure services and construction company.

We operate through three segments; Infrastructure Services, Construction and Property.