Franchise Brands (LON:FRAN) Posts Earnings Results

Franchise Brands (LON:FRAN) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday. The company reported GBX 8.59 ($0.11) EPS for the quarter, Digital Look Earnings reports. Franchise Brands had a net margin of 6.43% and a return on equity of 3.60%.

Franchise Brands Trading Down 1.1 %

Shares of LON FRAN opened at GBX 141 ($1.83) on Friday. Franchise Brands has a twelve month low of GBX 131 ($1.70) and a twelve month high of GBX 210 ($2.72). The company has a quick ratio of 1.57, a current ratio of 1.39 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 42.67. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 143.21 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 152.95. The firm has a market cap of £272.53 million, a PE ratio of 35.40 and a beta of 0.82.

Franchise Brands Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, May 23rd. Investors of record on Thursday, May 8th will be paid a GBX 1.30 ($0.02) dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 8th. This represents a yield of 0.95%. This is a boost from Franchise Brands’s previous dividend of $1.10. Franchise Brands’s dividend payout ratio is 50.21%.

Insider Activity

In other Franchise Brands news, insider Peter Kear acquired 35,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, January 30th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 136 ($1.76) per share, for a total transaction of £47,600 ($61,610.15). Also, insider Louise George acquired 100,000 shares of Franchise Brands stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, February 10th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 148 ($1.92) per share, with a total value of £148,000 ($191,560.96). Insiders own 39.04% of the company’s stock.

About Franchise Brands

Franchise Brands is an international, multi-brand franchisor focused on building market-leading businesses primarily via a franchise model. The Group has a combined network of over 625 franchisees across seven franchise brands in ten countries covering the UK, North America and Europe.

Franchise Brands’ focus is on B2B van-based reactive and planned services.