St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) Receives Consensus Recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from Analysts

St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) has received an average recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the seven brokerages that are covering the stock, Marketbeat.com reports. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have assigned a buy rating to the company. The average 1 year target price among brokerages that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is GBX 1,675.43.

A number of research analysts have recently issued reports on STJ shares. Royal Bank Of Canada reaffirmed a “sector perform” rating and set a GBX 1,400 price target on shares of St. James’s Place in a report on Thursday, April 30th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered their price target on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,686 to GBX 1,663 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, April 30th. Jefferies Financial Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a GBX 1,700 price target on shares of St. James’s Place in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Berenberg Bank reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a GBX 1,800 price target on shares of St. James’s Place in a report on Thursday, April 30th. Finally, Citigroup lowered their target price on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,810 to GBX 1,790 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, April 30th.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, insider Penny James bought 8,418 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, May 11th. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 1,182 per share, with a total value of £99,500.76. Corporate insiders own 1.15% of the company’s stock.

St. James’s Place Trading Down 1.4%

Shares of LON:STJ opened at GBX 1,192.69 on Tuesday. The company has a market cap of £6.09 billion, a P/E ratio of 12.07, a PEG ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.01. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 36.73, a current ratio of 3.80 and a quick ratio of 3.85. St. James’s Place has a 1 year low of GBX 1,067.25 and a 1 year high of GBX 1,575.50. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 1,220.19 and its 200-day moving average price is GBX 1,319.56.

St. James’s Place Company Profile

We plan, grow and protect the financial futures of over one million clients across the UK by providing holistic advice-led wealth management, delivered exclusively by the Partnership, our group of more than 4,900 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.