Insider Buying: Savills (LON:SVS) Insider Purchases £9,230 in Stock

Savills plc (LON:SVS) insider John Waters acquired 1,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, March 13th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 923 per share, for a total transaction of £9,230.

Savills Stock Down 2.0%

Savills stock opened at GBX 894 on Thursday. Savills plc has a twelve month low of GBX 858.89 and a twelve month high of GBX 1,126. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 80.81, a quick ratio of 1.22 and a current ratio of 1.17. The firm has a market cap of £1.23 billion, a PE ratio of 23.65, a P/E/G ratio of 2.09 and a beta of 1.25. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is GBX 1,023.27 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 993.66.

Savills (LON:SVS) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March 12th. The company reported GBX 77.20 EPS for the quarter. Savills had a net margin of 2.78% and a return on equity of 9.70%. On average, research analysts predict that Savills plc will post 76.1455526 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, Shore Capital Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of Savills in a research note on Thursday, March 12th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of GBX 1,180.

About Savills

Founded in the UK in 1855, Savills is one of the world’s leading property agents. Our experience and expertise spans the globe, with 600 offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.

Our scale gives us wide-ranging specialist and local knowledge, and we take pride in providing best-in-class advice as we help individuals, businesses and institutions make better property decisions.