Whitbread plc (LON:WTB – Get Free Report) has been assigned an average rating of “Moderate Buy” from the eight ratings firms that are covering the stock, Marketbeat reports. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and four have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 12-month price target among brokers that have covered the stock in the last year is GBX 2,981.88.
WTB has been the topic of several recent research reports. Jefferies Financial Group reiterated a “hold” rating and set a GBX 2,250 price objective on shares of Whitbread in a research report on Thursday, October 29th. Deutsche Bank boosted their target price on shares of Whitbread from GBX 2,530 to GBX 2,730 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 29th. Citigroup upped their price target on shares of Whitbread from GBX 3,100 to GBX 3,300 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, August 21st. Finally, Berenberg Bank upped their price target on shares of Whitbread from GBX 2,400 to GBX 2,700 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research note on Wednesday.
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Whitbread Stock Performance
Shares of LON WTB remained flat at GBX 2,806 during trading hours on Tuesday. The stock had a trading volume of 441,645 shares, compared to its average volume of 11,625,337. The company has a market cap of £4.70 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 77.30, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of -3.09 and a beta of 0.65. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is GBX 2,535.24 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 2,473. The company has a quick ratio of 1.74, a current ratio of 0.33 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 179.41. Whitbread has a one year low of GBX 2,098 and a one year high of GBX 2,907.37.
Whitbread (LON:WTB – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 13th. The company reported GBX 125.10 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Whitbread had a return on equity of 1.85% and a net margin of 1.96%. Research analysts predict that Whitbread will post 227.19 EPS for the current fiscal year.
About Whitbread
Whitbread is the owner of Premier Inn, the UK’s biggest hotel brand, with 86,000 rooms in over 850 hotels and a growing presence in Germany with 10,500 rooms in 59 hotels, offering quality accommodation at affordable prices in great locations. People are at the heart of our business. We employ over 38,000 team members in over 900 Premier Inn hotels across the UK and Germany.
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