Essentra plc (LON:ESNT) Insider Steve Good Purchases 35,000 Shares of Stock

Posted by Defense World Staff on Mar 22nd, 2025

Essentra plc (LON:ESNT – Get Free Report) insider Steve Good purchased 35,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, March 20th. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 109 ($1.41) per share, with a total value of £38,150 ($49,257.59).

Essentra Stock Performance

ESNT stock opened at GBX 104 ($1.34) on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 51.89, a quick ratio of 0.50 and a current ratio of 1.97. The stock has a market cap of £298.93 million, a P/E ratio of 85.67, a P/E/G ratio of 3.84 and a beta of 1.18. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of GBX 119.52 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 137.81. Essentra plc has a 52 week low of GBX 103.80 ($1.34) and a 52 week high of GBX 191.80 ($2.48).

Essentra (LON:ESNT – Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, March 19th. The company reported GBX 8.50 ($0.11) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Essentra had a net margin of 1.13% and a return on equity of 1.28%. Research analysts anticipate that Essentra plc will post 524.137931 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Essentra Increases Dividend

The company also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, July 3rd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 15th will be given a GBX 1.55 ($0.02) dividend. This is a positive change from Essentra’s previous dividend of $1.25. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 15th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.41%. Essentra’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 329.52%.