Insider Buying: Victorian Plumbing Group plc (LON:VIC) Insider Purchases 12,194 Shares of Stock

Victorian Plumbing Group plc (LON:VIC) insider Daniel Barton acquired 12,194 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, May 15th. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 82 ($1.09) per share, with a total value of £9,999.08 ($13,282.52).

Victorian Plumbing Group Trading Up 2.9%

LON VIC opened at GBX 79.20 ($1.05) on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 88.15, a quick ratio of 1.05 and a current ratio of 1.07. The company has a market capitalization of £266.79 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 48.52, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.51 and a beta of 1.03. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 94.52 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 100.13. Victorian Plumbing Group plc has a one year low of GBX 72.91 ($0.97) and a one year high of GBX 124 ($1.65).

Victorian Plumbing Group (LON:VIC) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, May 14th. The company reported GBX 1.90 ($0.03) EPS for the quarter. Victorian Plumbing Group had a net margin of 1.86% and a return on equity of 10.60%. Equities analysts forecast that Victorian Plumbing Group plc will post 5.980995 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities research analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. Shore Capital restated a “buy” rating on shares of Victorian Plumbing Group in a report on Tuesday, February 25th. Canaccord Genuity Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 132 ($1.75) target price on shares of Victorian Plumbing Group in a report on Tuesday, February 25th.

About Victorian Plumbing Group

Victorian Plumbing is the UK’s leading bathroom retailer, offering a wide range of over 34,000 products to B2C and trade customers. Victorian Plumbing offers its customers a one-stop shop solution for the entire bathroom with more than 130 own and third party brands across a wide spectrum of price points.

The Group’s product design and supply chain strengths are complemented by its creative and brand-focused marketing strategy, which predominantly focuses on online channels to drive significant and growing traffic to its website.

Headquartered in Skelmersdale, the Group employs over 600 staff across ten locations in Lancashire, Manchester and Birmingham.