Helen Cunningham Buys 6,237 Shares of Hays (LON:HAS) Stock

Hays plc (LON:HAS) insider Helen Cunningham bought 6,237 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 24th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 32 per share, with a total value of £1,995.84.

Hays Price Performance

Shares of LON:HAS opened at GBX 32.22 on Wednesday. The company’s 50-day moving average is GBX 42.73 and its 200 day moving average is GBX 51.56. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 65.55, a quick ratio of 1.31 and a current ratio of 1.27. The company has a market capitalization of £515.16 million, a P/E ratio of -65.76, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.24 and a beta of 0.75. Hays plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 30.64 and a fifty-two week high of GBX 84.40.

Hays (LON:HAS) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Friday, February 27th. The company reported GBX 0.46 earnings per share for the quarter. Hays had a negative net margin of 0.16% and a negative return on equity of 2.24%. On average, equities research analysts forecast that Hays plc will post 4.0966184 earnings per share for the current year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft decreased their price target on shares of Hays from GBX 100 to GBX 90 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, January 14th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of GBX 81.20.

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