Whitbread (LON:WTB – Get Free Report)‘s stock had its “hold” rating reaffirmed by equities researchers at Jefferies Financial Group in a report released on Thursday, Digital Look reports. They presently have a GBX 2,250 target price on the stock. Jefferies Financial Group‘s price target points to a potential downside of 18.74% from the stock’s current price.
Other equities analysts also recently issued reports about the stock. Berenberg Bank restated a “hold” rating and issued a GBX 2,250 target price on shares of Whitbread in a research note on Thursday. Citigroup raised their target price on shares of Whitbread from GBX 3,100 to GBX 3,300 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, August 21st. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and four have given a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of GBX 2,900.62.
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Whitbread Stock Up 1.2%
LON:WTB opened at GBX 2,769 on Thursday. The company has a market cap of £4.63 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 22.62, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of -3.09 and a beta of 0.65. Whitbread has a twelve month low of GBX 2,098 and a twelve month high of GBX 3,017. The company has a current ratio of 0.33, a quick ratio of 1.74 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 179.41. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 2,449.95 and a 200-day simple moving average of GBX 2,469.62.
Whitbread (LON:WTB – Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 13th. The company reported GBX 125.10 EPS for the quarter. Whitbread had a net margin of 1.96% and a return on equity of 1.85%. Analysts anticipate that Whitbread will post 227.19 EPS for the current year.
Insider Activity at Whitbread
In other news, insider Shelley Roberts purchased 485 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, August 11th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 2,456 per share, with a total value of £11,911.60. Insiders own 0.42% of the company’s stock.
About Whitbread
Whitbread is the owner of Premier Inn, the UK’s biggest
hotel brand, with 86,000 rooms in over 850 hotels
and a growing presence in Germany with 10,500 rooms in
59 hotels, offering quality accommodation at affordable
prices in great locations.
People are at the heart of our business. We employ over
38,000 team members in over 900 Premier Inn hotels
across the UK and Germany.
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