AJ Bell’s (AJB) Buy Rating Reaffirmed at Jefferies Financial Group

AJ Bell (LON:AJB)‘s stock had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by research analysts at Jefferies Financial Group in a research note issued on Thursday, MarketBeat Ratings reports. They currently have a GBX 700 target price on the stock. Jefferies Financial Group‘s price target suggests a potential upside of 16.57% from the company’s current price.

Separately, Berenberg Bank upped their price target on shares of AJ Bell from GBX 560 to GBX 590 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 28th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and five have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, AJ Bell has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of GBX 1,274.38.

AJ Bell Stock Up 0.5%

LON:AJB opened at GBX 600.47 on Thursday. AJ Bell has a twelve month low of GBX 414.40 and a twelve month high of GBX 662.50. The company has a market cap of £2.36 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.80, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.73 and a beta of 0.87. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 593.46 and a 200-day simple moving average of GBX 584.87. The company has a current ratio of 109.52, a quick ratio of 7.16 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.73.

About AJ Bell

Established in 1995, AJ Bell is one of the largest investment platforms in the UK, operating at scale in both the advised and direct-to-consumer markets.

Our purpose is to help people invest by providing them with easy access to Pensions, ISAs and General investment accounts, great customer service and competitive charges.

Our two core platform propositions are AJ Bell in the D2C market and AJ Bell Investcentre in the advised market, which both provide access to a broad investment range including shares and other instruments traded on the major stock exchanges around the world, as well as all mainstream collective investments available in the UK and our own range of AJ Bell funds.