Insider Buying: Kier Group (LON:KIE) Insider Acquires £150.22 in Stock

Kier Group plc (LON:KIEGet Free Report) insider Tom Hinton acquired 58 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, August 18th. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 259 per share, with a total value of £150.22.

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

  • On Friday, July 17th, Tom Hinton acquired 68 shares of Kier Group stock. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 221 per share, for a total transaction of £150.28.
  • On Thursday, June 18th, Tom Hinton acquired 72 shares of Kier Group stock. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 208 per share, for a total transaction of £149.76.

Kier Group Stock Performance

LON:KIE traded down GBX 3 on Wednesday, reaching GBX 253.40. 37,058,582 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,955,972. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 228.17 and a 200-day simple moving average of GBX 219.10. Kier Group plc has a 52 week low of GBX 178.60 and a 52 week high of GBX 263.60. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 230.22, a current ratio of 0.86 and a quick ratio of 0.69. The firm has a market cap of £1.11 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.34, a P/E/G ratio of 0.29 and a beta of 0.88.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Separately, Berenberg Bank reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 260 target price on shares of Kier Group in a research note on Wednesday, July 22nd. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, According to data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of GBX 253.33.

Read Our Latest Stock Analysis on KIE

About Kier Group

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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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