Savills plc (LON:SVS) Insider John Waters Purchases 1,000 Shares

Savills plc (LON:SVS) insider John Waters purchased 1,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, March 19th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 975 ($12.64) per share, with a total value of £9,750 ($12,642.63).

Savills Price Performance

Savills stock opened at GBX 985 ($12.77) on Friday. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 1,026.31 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 1,073.69. Savills plc has a one year low of GBX 881 ($11.42) and a one year high of GBX 1,298 ($16.83). The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 92.62, a current ratio of 1.16 and a quick ratio of 1.22. The firm has a market cap of £1.33 billion, a PE ratio of 30.17, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.09 and a beta of 1.24.

Savills (LON:SVS) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Friday, March 14th. The company reported GBX 66.20 ($0.86) EPS for the quarter. Savills had a return on equity of 6.17% and a net margin of 1.93%. As a group, research analysts expect that Savills plc will post 76.1455526 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Savills Increases Dividend

The firm also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, May 22nd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 10th will be paid a GBX 23.10 ($0.30) dividend. This is a positive change from Savills’s previous dividend of $7.10. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 10th. This represents a dividend yield of 2.46%. Savills’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 64.33%.

Savills Company Profile

Founded in the UK in 1855, Savills is one of the world’s leading property agents. Our experience and expertise spans the globe, with 600 offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.

Our scale gives us wide-ranging specialist and local knowledge, and we take pride in providing best-in-class advice as we help individuals, businesses and institutions make better property decisions.