Christine Bennett Purchases 1,100 Shares of Sonic Healthcare (ASX:SHL) Stock

Sonic Healthcare Limited (ASX:SHL) insider Christine Bennett purchased 1,100 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, October 1st. The shares were purchased at an average cost of A$21.51 per share, with a total value of A$23,661.00.

Sonic Healthcare Price Performance

The company has a market cap of $13.84 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.85, a PEG ratio of -1.19 and a beta of 0.51. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 57.03, a current ratio of 1.01 and a quick ratio of 0.96.

Sonic Healthcare Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently declared a Final dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, September 17th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, September 17th were given a dividend of $0.63 per share. This represents a yield of 256.0%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, September 2nd. Sonic Healthcare’s payout ratio is 99.07%.

About Sonic Healthcare

Sonic Healthcare Limited offers medical diagnostic services to medical practitioners, hospitals, community health services, and their collective patients. The company provides laboratory medicine/pathology testing services, such as biochemistry, cytopathology, genetics, haematology, histopathology, immunoserology, microbiology, molecular pathology, prenatal testing, toxicology, and ancillary functions; and radiology services, including magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, X-ray, mammography, nuclear medicine, PET CT, interventional procedures, and bone mineral densitometry.