St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) Share Price Passes Above 200-Day Moving Average – Should You Sell?

St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ)’s stock price passed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Monday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 890.94 ($11.51) and traded as high as GBX 1,003 ($12.96). St. James’s Place shares last traded at GBX 976.96 ($12.62), with a volume of 2,536,537 shares changing hands.

St. James’s Place Stock Down 3.5 %

The company has a market capitalization of £5.28 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -818.83, a P/E/G ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.23. The company has a quick ratio of 3.85, a current ratio of 0.60 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 55.10. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of GBX 1,041.80 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 890.94.

St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 27th. The company reported GBX 73 ($0.94) earnings per share 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, sell-side analysts expect that St. James’s Place plc will post 67.9947461 earnings per share for the current year.

St. James’s Place Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, May 23rd. Investors of record on Thursday, April 10th will be paid a GBX 12 ($0.16) dividend. This represents a dividend yield of 1.17%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 10th. This is a positive change from St. James’s Place’s previous dividend of $6.00. St. James’s Place’s payout ratio is -1,173.40%.

Insider Activity at St. James’s Place

In other news, insider Rooney Anand purchased 10,509 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, March 6th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 1,032 ($13.33) per share, for a total transaction of £108,452.88 ($140,120.00). 0.72% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

About St. James’s Place

We plan, grow and protect the financial futures of nearly one million clients across the UK by providing holistic advice-led wealth management, delivered exclusively by the Partnership, our group of more than 4,800 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.