Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) Insider Sells £87,129.35 in Stock

Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) insider Helen Miles sold 3,233 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, June 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 2,695 ($36.29), for a total value of £87,129.35 ($117,330.12).

Severn Trent Trading Up 0.4%

LON SVT opened at GBX 2,707 ($36.45) on Friday. Severn Trent PLC has a 52 week low of GBX 2,323 ($31.28) and a 52 week high of GBX 2,807 ($37.80). The firm has a 50 day moving average of GBX 2,703.30 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 2,567.26. The company has a quick ratio of 0.73, a current ratio of 2.14 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 450.94. The stock has a market capitalization of £8.08 billion, a PE ratio of 45.18, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.69 and a beta of 0.38.

Severn Trent (LON:SVT) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, May 21st. The company reported GBX 112.10 ($1.51) EPS for the quarter. Severn Trent had a net margin of 6.00% and a return on equity of 10.40%. As a group, research analysts expect that Severn Trent PLC will post 107.3706004 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several research firms recently commented on SVT. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft lowered their target price on Severn Trent from GBX 2,700 ($36.36) to GBX 2,600 ($35.01) and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, March 6th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reissued an “overweight” rating on shares of Severn Trent in a research report on Thursday, March 6th.

About Severn Trent

As one of Britain’s largest water companies, we provide over eight million people across our region with fresh, clean drinking water – about two billion litres every day. And when they’ve finished with it, we take it away again then clean and treat it before returning it safely back to the environment.

We are one of only three listed water stocks in the UK, offering a valuable combination of reliable earnings, long term asset growth and an inflation-linked dividend.