Richard Howes Purchases 70 Shares of Smiths Group (LON:SMIN) Stock

Smiths Group plc (LON:SMIN) insider Richard Howes purchased 70 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, November 3rd. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 2,522 per share, for a total transaction of £1,765.40.

Smiths Group Price Performance

LON SMIN opened at GBX 2,530 on Wednesday. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is GBX 2,393.09 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 2,260.54. The company has a current ratio of 2.07, a quick ratio of 1.29 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 29.55. The company has a market cap of £8.22 billion, a PE ratio of 29.66, a PEG ratio of 0.35 and a beta of 0.66. Smiths Group plc has a 1 year low of GBX 1,514.66 and a 1 year high of GBX 2,550.

Smiths Group (LON:SMIN) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, September 23rd. The company reported GBX 85.70 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Smiths Group had a return on equity of 11.54% and a net margin of 7.98%. On average, analysts predict that Smiths Group plc will post 85.1295337 EPS for the current year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, JPMorgan Chase & Co. restated an “overweight” rating on shares of Smiths Group in a report on Friday, October 17th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Buy”.

About Smiths Group

Smiths Group plc operates as an industrial engineering company in Americas, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. It operates through four businesses: John Crane, Smiths Detection, Flex-Tek, and Smiths Interconnect. The John Crane business engineers mechanical seals, seal support systems, power transmission couplings, and specialized filtration systems.