Savills plc (LON:SVS) Insider Buys £9,750 in Stock

Savills plc (LON:SVS) insider John Waters acquired 1,000 shares of Savills stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, March 19th. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 975 ($12.59) per share, for a total transaction of £9,750 ($12,588.77).

Savills Price Performance

Shares of SVS opened at GBX 989 ($12.77) on Friday. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is GBX 1,026.79 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 1,073.10. Savills plc has a twelve month low of GBX 881 ($11.38) and a twelve month high of GBX 1,298 ($16.76). The company has a current ratio of 1.16, a quick ratio of 1.22 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 92.62. The firm has a market capitalization of £1.34 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 30.30, a PEG ratio of 2.09 and a beta of 1.24.

Savills (LON:SVS) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Friday, March 14th. The company reported GBX 66.20 ($0.85) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Savills had a net margin of 1.93% and a return on equity of 6.17%. Equities analysts forecast that Savills plc will post 76.1455526 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Savills Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, May 22nd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 10th will be issued a GBX 23.10 ($0.30) dividend. This is an increase from Savills’s previous dividend of $7.10. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 10th. This represents a dividend yield of 2.46%. Savills’s payout ratio is presently 64.33%.

About Savills

Founded in the UK in 1855, Savills is one of the world’s leading property agents. Our experience and expertise spans the globe, with 600 offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.

Our scale gives us wide-ranging specialist and local knowledge, and we take pride in providing best-in-class advice as we help individuals, businesses and institutions make better property decisions.