St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) Receives GBX 1,689.71 Average Price Target from Analysts

St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) has been assigned a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” from the seven analysts that are covering the company, MarketBeat reports. Two analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have given a buy rating to the company. The average 1 year target price among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is GBX 1,689.71.

Several equities analysts have issued reports on STJ shares. Berenberg Bank restated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 1,800 price objective on shares of St. James’s Place in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Royal Bank Of Canada reissued a “sector perform” rating and issued a GBX 1,400 target price on shares of St. James’s Place in a report on Thursday, April 30th. Citigroup decreased their target price on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,810 to GBX 1,790 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, April 30th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped 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 research note on Thursday, April 30th. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft cut their price target on St. James’s Place from GBX 2,050 to GBX 2,000 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, June 24th.

Insider Activity at St. James’s Place

In other St. James’s Place news, insider Penny James bought 8,418 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, May 11th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 1,182 per share, with a total value of £99,500.76. 1.21% of the stock is owned by insiders.

St. James’s Place Trading Up 0.8%

LON STJ opened at GBX 1,236 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 36.73, a current ratio of 3.80 and a quick ratio of 3.85. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 1,193.84 and its 200 day moving average price is GBX 1,294.39. The company has a market capitalization of £6.29 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.51, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.00. St. James’s Place has a 12 month low of GBX 1,114 and a 12 month high of GBX 1,575.50.

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.