Erik Engstrom Sells 7,521 Shares of Relx Plc (LON:REL) Stock

Relx Plc (LON:REL) insider Erik Engstrom sold 7,521 shares of Relx stock in a transaction on Tuesday, February 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 4,060 ($51.09), for a total transaction of £305,352.60 ($384,236.32).

Erik Engstrom also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Friday, February 14th, Erik Engstrom sold 128,798 shares of Relx stock. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 4,073 ($51.25), for a total transaction of £5,245,942.54 ($6,601,160.87).

Relx Stock Down 0.8 %

Shares of Relx stock opened at GBX 3,996 ($50.28) on Thursday. The company has a current ratio of 0.48, a quick ratio of 0.45 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 216.69. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is GBX 3,846.40 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 3,686.32. The company has a market cap of £73.89 billion, a P/E ratio of 39.89, a PEG ratio of 2.69 and a beta of 0.48. Relx Plc has a 12-month low of GBX 3,218 ($40.49) and a 12-month high of GBX 4,205 ($52.91).

Relx (LON:REL) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 13th. The company reported GBX 120.10 ($1.51) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Relx had a net margin of 20.34% and a return on equity of 56.71%. Research analysts anticipate that Relx Plc will post 134.0035675 EPS for the current year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, JPMorgan Chase & Co. reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and issued a GBX 4,770 ($60.02) target price on shares of Relx in a research note on Tuesday.

About Relx

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. The Group serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs over 33,000 people, of whom almost half are in North America. The shares of RELX PLC, the parent company, are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York Stock Exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX.