AJ Bell (LON:AJB) Insider Purchases £19,600 in Stock

AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) insider Peter Birch purchased 4,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, December 4th. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 490 per share, for a total transaction of £19,600.

Peter Birch also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Tuesday, October 14th, Peter Birch sold 37,924 shares of AJ Bell stock. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 543, for a total value of £205,927.32.

AJ Bell Price Performance

AJ Bell stock opened at GBX 490.40 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of £1.97 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 22.71, a PEG ratio of 5.73 and a beta of 0.99. The company has a current ratio of 3.63, a quick ratio of 7.16 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 6.46. AJ Bell plc has a 12 month low of GBX 355.20 and a 12 month high of GBX 578.50. The stock’s 50 day moving average is GBX 532.15 and its 200-day moving average is GBX 516.57.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research analysts have weighed in on the company. UBS Group reiterated a “neutral” rating and set a GBX 550 price objective on shares of AJ Bell in a research report on Friday, October 17th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft upped their price target on shares of AJ Bell from GBX 600 to GBX 625 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, October 3rd. Citigroup lifted their price objective on shares of AJ Bell from GBX 440 to GBX 475 and gave the stock a “sell” rating in a research note on Monday, October 20th. Shore Capital reissued a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 575 price objective on shares of AJ Bell in a report on Thursday, October 23rd. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group raised their target price on shares of AJ Bell from GBX 590 to GBX 625 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, October 17th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, three have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of GBX 542.86.

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.