Insider Buying: Metro Bank (LON:MTRO) Insider Acquires 17,599 Shares of Stock

Metro Bank Holdings PLC (LON:MTRO) insider Robert Sharpe bought 17,599 shares of Metro Bank stock in a transaction on Thursday, March 19th. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 111 per share, with a total value of £19,534.89.

Metro Bank Trading Down 3.6%

MTRO traded down GBX 4.20 during trading on Thursday, hitting GBX 111.20. The stock had a trading volume of 1,078,780 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,796,325. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of GBX 125.56 and a 200-day simple moving average of GBX 119.64. The firm has a market cap of £748.70 million, a PE ratio of 7.08 and a beta of 0.99. Metro Bank Holdings PLC has a 12 month low of GBX 76.40 and a 12 month high of GBX 140.

Metro Bank (LON:MTRO) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, March 4th. The company reported GBX 7.80 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Metro Bank had a net margin of 8.10% and a return on equity of 5.16%. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that Metro Bank Holdings PLC will post 521.5384615 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

About Metro Bank

Metro Bank Holdings PLC operates as the bank holding company for Metro Bank PLC that provides various banking products and services in the United Kingdom. It offers personal banking products and services, including current, cash, and foreign currency accounts; savings; residential and buy-to-let mortgages; overdrafts; credit cards; pet insurance; and safe deposit box services. The company also provides business banking products and services comprising business bank, commercial and community current, foreign currency, and insolvency practitioner accounts; deposit accounts, such as business and community instant access deposit, business notice, client premium and flexible client term deposit, and business and community fixed term deposit accounts; insurance products; and business and commercial loans and overdrafts, asset and invoice financing, bounce back loans, business credit cards, and recovery loan schemes services.