St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) Shares Cross Above Two Hundred Day Moving Average – What’s Next?

St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ)’s share price crossed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Thursday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 862.48 ($11.17) and traded as high as GBX 1,015 ($13.15). St. James’s Place shares last traded at GBX 994.50 ($12.88), with a volume of 2,960,899 shares traded.

St. James’s Place Price Performance

The company has a quick ratio of 3.85, a current ratio of 0.60 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 55.10. The stock has a market capitalization of £5.38 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -833.53, a P/E/G ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.23. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 999.02 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 862.48.

St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, February 27th. The company reported GBX 73 ($0.95) EPS for the quarter. St. James’s Place had a negative net margin of 0.02% and a negative return on equity of 0.63%. Equities research analysts forecast that St. James’s Place plc will post 67.9947461 EPS for the current year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other St. James’s Place news, insider Rooney Anand purchased 10,509 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 6th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 1,032 ($13.37) per share, with a total value of £108,452.88 ($140,483.01). Company insiders own 0.72% of the company’s stock.

St. James’s Place Company Profile

We plan, grow and protect the financial futures of nearly one million clients across the UK by providing holistic advice-led wealth management, delivered exclusively by the Partnership, our group of more than 4,800 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.