St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) Receives GBX 1,513.57 Consensus PT from Analysts

St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) has earned an average recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the seven analysts that are covering the firm, Marketbeat reports. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and five have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 1 year price target among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is GBX 1,513.57.

A number of equities analysts have recently issued reports on STJ shares. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered their target price on shares of St. James’s Place from GBX 725 to GBX 625 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, March 18th. UBS Group restated a “neutral” rating and set a GBX 1,475 target price on shares of St. James’s Place in a research report on Friday, January 16th. Jefferies Financial Group lowered their target price on shares of St. James’s Place from GBX 1,800 to GBX 1,700 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, April 2nd. Royal Bank Of Canada raised their target price on shares of St. James’s Place from GBX 1,350 to GBX 1,375 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a research report on Monday, February 2nd. Finally, Citigroup lifted their target price on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,790 to GBX 1,870 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, March 4th.

St. James’s Place Trading Down 0.2%

LON STJ opened at GBX 1,288 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 36.73, a current ratio of 3.80 and a quick ratio of 3.85. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 1,281.06 and its 200 day moving average price is GBX 1,341.63. The company has a market capitalization of £6.61 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.04, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.04. St. James’s Place has a 12 month low of GBX 881 and a 12 month high of GBX 1,575.50.

St. James’s Place (LON:STJ) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The company reported GBX 99.90 EPS for the quarter. St. James’s Place had a net margin of 1.76% and a return on equity of 37.33%. On average, sell-side analysts expect that St. James’s Place will post 67.9947461 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

St. James’s Place Company Profile

We plan, grow and protect the financial futures of over one million clients across the UK by providing holistic advice-led wealth management, delivered exclusively by the Partnership, our group of more than 4,900 highly skilled advisers.

We offer an integrated client proposition, through which we provide financial advice, investment product wrappers such as pensions, investment bonds and ISAs, and offer our own range of investment funds and portfolios.