Richard Taylor Acquires 1,800 Shares of Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) Stock

Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) insider Richard Taylor acquired 1,800 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 9th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 2,636 ($35.89) per share, for a total transaction of £47,448 ($64,599.05).

Severn Trent Price Performance

Severn Trent stock opened at GBX 2,727.42 ($37.13) on Friday. The company’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 2,685.64 and its 200 day moving average price is GBX 2,568.74. Severn Trent PLC has a 1 year low of GBX 2,323 ($31.63) and a 1 year high of GBX 2,807 ($38.22). The stock has a market capitalization of £8.14 billion, a P/E ratio of 45.52, a P/E/G ratio of 4.69 and a beta of 0.38. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 450.94, a quick ratio of 0.73 and a current ratio of 2.14.

Severn Trent (LON:SVT) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 21st. The company reported GBX 112.10 ($1.53) earnings per share for the quarter. Severn Trent had a return on equity of 10.40% and a net margin of 6.00%. As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that Severn Trent PLC will post 107.3706004 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

SVT has been the topic of a number of analyst reports. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft dropped their price objective on shares of Severn Trent from GBX 2,700 ($36.76) to GBX 2,600 ($35.40) and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, March 6th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reaffirmed an “overweight” rating on shares of Severn Trent in a research note on Thursday, March 6th.

About Severn Trent

As one of Britain’s largest water companies, we provide over eight million people across our region with fresh, clean drinking water – about two billion litres every day. And when they’ve finished with it, we take it away again then clean and treat it before returning it safely back to the environment.

We are one of only three listed water stocks in the UK, offering a valuable combination of reliable earnings, long term asset growth and an inflation-linked dividend.