St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) Stock Crosses Above 200 Day Moving Average – Time to Sell?

St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) shares crossed above its two hundred day moving average during trading on Thursday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 862.48 ($11.16) and traded as high as GBX 1,015 ($13.13). St. James’s Place shares last traded at GBX 994.50 ($12.86), with a volume of 2,960,899 shares traded.

St. James’s Place Stock Up 0.8 %

The business’s fifty day simple moving average is GBX 1,001.85 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 864.57. The company has a current ratio of 0.60, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 55.10. The stock has a market cap of £5.44 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -842.77, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.23.

St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) last released its earnings results on Thursday, February 27th. The company reported GBX 73 ($0.94) EPS for the quarter. St. James’s Place had a negative net margin of 0.02% and a negative return on equity of 0.63%. Equities analysts forecast that St. James’s Place plc will post 67.9947461 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, insider Rooney Anand purchased 10,509 shares of St. James’s Place stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 6th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 1,032 ($13.35) per share, with a total value of £108,452.88 ($140,283.12). Company insiders own 0.72% of the company’s stock.

St. James’s Place Company Profile

We plan, grow and protect the financial futures of nearly one million clients across the UK by providing holistic advice-led wealth management, delivered exclusively by the Partnership, our group of more than 4,800 highly skilled advisers.

We offer an integrated client proposition, through which we provide financial advice, investment product wrappers such as pensions, investment bonds and ISAs, and offer our own range of investment funds and portfolios.