St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) Plans Dividend of GBX 12

St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) announced a dividend on Thursday, February 27th, DividendData.Co.Uk reports. Investors of record on Thursday, April 10th will be paid a dividend of GBX 12 ($0.15) per share on Friday, May 23rd. This represents a yield of 1.17%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 10th. This is a 100.0% increase from St. James’s Place’s previous dividend of $6.00. The official announcement can be accessed at this link.

St. James’s Place Stock Up 4.0 %

STJ stock opened at GBX 822.40 ($10.47) on Tuesday. The company has a market cap of £4.45 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -689.29, a PEG ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.23. The firm has a 50-day moving average of GBX 1,037.84 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 896.65. St. James’s Place has a 12 month low of GBX 393.60 ($5.01) and a 12 month high of GBX 1,153.96 ($14.69). The company has a current ratio of 0.60, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 55.10.

St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 27th. The company reported GBX 73 ($0.93) EPS for the quarter. St. James’s Place had a negative return on equity of 0.63% and a negative net margin of 0.02%. As a group, analysts forecast that St. James’s Place will post 67.9947461 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, insider Rooney Anand purchased 10,509 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 6th. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 1,032 ($13.14) per share, with a total value of £108,452.88 ($138,051.02). Corporate insiders own 0.72% of the company’s stock.

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.