Balfour Beatty plc (LON:BBY – Get Free Report) insider Robert MacLeod purchased 17,674 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, September 17th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 422 ($5.57) per share, with a total value of £74,584.28 ($98,526.13).
Balfour Beatty Stock Down 2.4 %
Balfour Beatty stock traded down GBX 10.20 ($0.13) during midday trading on Wednesday, hitting GBX 415.80 ($5.49). 1,912,769 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,148,603. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 79.17, a current ratio of 0.99 and a quick ratio of 0.84. The company has a market cap of £2.12 billion, a PE ratio of 1,012.38, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.75 and a beta of 0.81. Balfour Beatty plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 291.60 ($3.85) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 437.60 ($5.78). The company’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 411.09 and its 200-day moving average price is GBX 383.51.
Balfour Beatty Cuts Dividend
The firm also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, December 6th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, October 31st will be paid a GBX 3.80 ($0.05) dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 31st. This represents a dividend yield of 0.93%. Balfour Beatty’s payout ratio is 2,857.14%.
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About Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty plc finances, designs, develops, builds, and maintains infrastructure in the United Kingdom, the United States, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Construction Services, Support Services, and Infrastructure Investments. The company constructs buildings, including commercial, healthcare, education, retail, and residential assets; and infrastructure assets comprising highways and railways, as well as other large-scale infrastructure assets, such as waste, water, and energy plants.
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