Caledonia Investments (LON:CLDN) Sets New 12-Month High – Time to Buy?

Caledonia Investments Plc (LON:CLDN)’s share price reached a new 52-week high during trading on Wednesday . The stock traded as high as GBX 3,815 ($47.50) and last traded at GBX 3,813.66 ($47.49), with a volume of 31182 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at GBX 3,795 ($47.25).

Caledonia Investments Price Performance

The company has a quick ratio of 10.12, a current ratio of 9.29 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.93. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is GBX 3,571.28 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 3,495.30. The firm has a market cap of £2.05 billion, a PE ratio of 1,032.52 and a beta of 0.77.

Caledonia Investments (LON:CLDN) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, November 26th. The company reported GBX 40.50 ($0.50) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Caledonia Investments had a net margin of 86.28% and a return on equity of 7.07%.

Caledonia Investments Cuts Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Thursday, January 9th. Investors of record on Thursday, December 5th were given a GBX 19.69 ($0.25) dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, December 5th. This represents a yield of 0.59%. Caledonia Investments’s dividend payout ratio is currently 1,897.02%.

Insider Activity at Caledonia Investments

In other Caledonia Investments news, insider William Wyatt acquired 135 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, February 6th. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 3,800 ($47.32) per share, for a total transaction of £5,130 ($6,387.75). Company insiders own 40.16% of the company’s stock.

About Caledonia Investments

Caledonia is a FTSE 250 self-managed investment trust company with a long track record of delivering consistent returns and progressive annual dividend payments to shareholders.

Our aim is to generate long-term compounding real returns that outperform inflation by 3%-6% over the medium to long term, and the FTSE All-Share index over 10 years.

We are a long-term investor and hold investments in both listed and private markets across three pools: Public Companies, Private Capital and Funds.