Kier Group (LON:KIE) Insider Tom Hinton Buys 48 Shares

Kier Group plc (LON:KIEGet Free Report) insider Tom Hinton acquired 48 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, September 18th. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 309 per share, with a total value of £148.32.

Tom Hinton also recently made the following trade(s):

  • On Tuesday, August 18th, Tom Hinton acquired 58 shares of Kier Group stock. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 259 per share, with a total value of £150.22.
  • On Friday, July 17th, Tom Hinton bought 68 shares of Kier Group stock. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 221 per share, for a total transaction of £150.28.

Kier Group Stock Performance

LON:KIE opened at GBX 307.80 on Wednesday. The company has a current ratio of 0.90, a quick ratio of 0.69 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 360.81. The firm has a market capitalization of £1.33 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 23.50, a PEG ratio of 0.29 and a beta of 0.89. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is GBX 253.04 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 223.88. Kier Group plc has a twelve month low of GBX 186.80 and a twelve month high of GBX 318.80.

Kier Group (LON:KIEGet Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, September 15th. The company reported GBX 23.50 earnings per share for the quarter. Kier Group had a net margin of 1.42% and a return on equity of 11.95%. As a group, equities research analysts expect that Kier Group plc will post 20.4913295 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities research analysts have recently weighed in on KIE shares. Berenberg Bank reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 260 target price on shares of Kier Group in a research report on Wednesday, July 22nd. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised their target price on Kier Group from GBX 295 to GBX 330 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, September 15th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of GBX 272.50.

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Kier Group Company Profile

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Kier Group is a leading infrastructure services, construction and property group based in the UK.

Our purpose is to sustainably deliver infrastructure which is vital to the UK with a vision is to be the UK’s leading infrastructure services and construction company.

We operate through three segments; Infrastructure Services, Construction and Property. Infrastructure Services comprises our Transportation and Natural Resources, Nuclear and Networks business. Transportation: builds and maintains roads for National Highways and a number of district and county councils as well as our rail, airports’ infrastructure and ports’ businesses.

Natural Resources, Nuclear and Networks: delivers long-term contracts providing repairs, maintains and support capital projects to the water, energy, and telecommunications sectors.

Construction — comprises of our Regional Building, Strategic Projects, Kier Places (Housing Maintenance and Facilities Management), and International businesses.

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