Christopher Samuel Acquires 10,000 Shares of Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) Stock

Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) insider Christopher Samuel purchased 10,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 11th. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 1,007 ($13.67) per share, for a total transaction of £100,700 ($136,727.77).

Scottish Mortgage Stock Performance

LON SMT opened at GBX 990 ($13.44) on Friday. The firm has a market cap of £12.11 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.16 and a beta of 0.75. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of GBX 942.98 and a 200-day simple moving average of GBX 980.01. Scottish Mortgage has a one year low of GBX 733.43 ($9.96) and a one year high of GBX 1,142.51 ($15.51).

Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) last released its earnings results on Thursday, May 22nd. The company reported GBX 1.39 ($0.02) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Scottish Mortgage had a net margin of 94.48% and a return on equity of 11.53%.

Scottish Mortgage Increases Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Monday, March 31st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, March 27th were paid a GBX 4 ($0.05) dividend. This is a boost from Scottish Mortgage’s previous dividend of $1.60. This represents a dividend yield of 2.8%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, March 27th. Scottish Mortgage’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 4.10%.

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