AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) Receives GBX 1,265 Average PT from Analysts

Shares of AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) have received a consensus recommendation of “Hold” from the eight analysts that are covering the company, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and three have issued a buy recommendation on the company. The average 1 year price objective among brokers that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is GBX 1,265.

A number of analysts have commented on the stock. Citigroup boosted their price target on shares of AJ Bell from GBX 5,200 to GBX 6,000 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Thursday, June 11th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft upped their price target on shares of AJ Bell from GBX 600 to GBX 675 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, June 9th. Berenberg Bank raised their price objective on shares of AJ Bell from GBX 560 to GBX 590 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 28th. UBS Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 630 target price on shares of AJ Bell in a report on Monday, May 18th. Finally, Shore Capital Group reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of AJ Bell in a report on Friday, April 24th.

AJ Bell Price Performance

Shares of AJB stock opened at GBX 603 on Thursday. AJ Bell has a twelve month low of GBX 414.40 and a twelve month high of GBX 662.50. The company has a market capitalization of £2.38 billion, a PE ratio of 19.88, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.73 and a beta of 0.87. The company has a current ratio of 109.52, a quick ratio of 7.16 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.73. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 605.71 and a 200-day simple moving average of GBX 527.

AJ Bell (LON:AJB) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 21st. The company reported GBX 14.70 EPS for the quarter. The firm had revenue of £182.96 million during the quarter. AJ Bell had a return on equity of 57.35% and a net margin of 35.42%. Equities research analysts anticipate that AJ Bell will post 23.8118812 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

AJ Bell Company Profile

Established in 1995, AJ Bell is one of the largest investment platforms in the UK, operating at scale in both the advised and direct-to-consumer markets.

Our purpose is to help people invest by providing them with easy access to Pensions, ISAs and General investment accounts, great customer service and competitive charges.

Our two core platform propositions are AJ Bell in the D2C market and AJ Bell Investcentre in the advised market, which both provide access to a broad investment range including shares and other instruments traded on the major stock exchanges around the world, as well as all mainstream collective investments available in the UK and our own range of AJ Bell funds.