Spectris (LON:SXS) Insider Buys £162.68 in Stock

Spectris plc (LON:SXS) insider Andrew Heath acquired 4 shares of Spectris stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, September 5th. The shares were purchased at an average price of GBX 4,067 per share, with a total value of £162.68.

Andrew Heath also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Thursday, August 7th, Andrew Heath purchased 3 shares of Spectris stock. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 4,109 per share, with a total value of £123.27.

Spectris Trading Down 0.2%

Shares of SXS opened at GBX 4,089.04 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.37, a current ratio of 2.36 and a quick ratio of 1.03. Spectris plc has a 1 year low of GBX 1,877 and a 1 year high of GBX 4,170. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of GBX 4,028.89 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 3,009.85. The firm has a market cap of £4.06 billion, a P/E ratio of 7,099.03, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.74 and a beta of 0.61.

Spectris (LON:SXS) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August 7th. The company reported GBX 38.40 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Spectris had a return on equity of 20.13% and a net margin of 20.44%. On average, equities analysts expect that Spectris plc will post 194.7972456 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on SXS. Shore Capital reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Spectris in a report on Wednesday, July 2nd. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft lifted their price target on Spectris from GBX 3,763 to GBX 4,147 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, September 5th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and one has assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Spectris has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of GBX 3,573.50.

Spectris Company Profile

The experts in providing insight through precision measurement.

Our purpose is to deliver value beyond measure – going beyond just the measurement.

Precision is at the heart of what we do. Spectris provides global customers with specialist insight through our high-tech instruments and test equipment, augmented by the power of our software.

Through a combination of our hardware, analytical and simulation software, we provide our customers with superior data and invaluable insights that enable them to work faster, smarter and more efficiently.

This equips them with the ability to reduce time to market, improve processes, quality and yield.