John Waters Acquires 1,000 Shares of Savills plc (LON:SVS) Stock

Savills plc (LON:SVS) insider John Waters purchased 1,000 shares of Savills stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, March 19th. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 975 ($12.59) per share, with a total value of £9,750 ($12,588.77).

Savills Price Performance

Shares of SVS opened at GBX 989 ($12.77) on Friday. Savills plc has a 1-year low of GBX 881 ($11.38) and a 1-year high of GBX 1,298 ($16.76). The stock has a market cap of £1.34 billion, a PE ratio of 30.30, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.09 and a beta of 1.24. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 92.62, a current ratio of 1.16 and a quick ratio of 1.22. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 1,026.79 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 1,073.10.

Savills (LON:SVS) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, March 14th. The company reported GBX 66.20 ($0.85) earnings per share for the quarter. Savills had a net margin of 1.93% and a return on equity of 6.17%. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that Savills plc will post 76.1455526 EPS for the current year.

Savills Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, May 22nd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 10th will be issued a GBX 23.10 ($0.30) dividend. This represents a dividend yield of 2.46%. This is a boost from Savills’s previous dividend of $7.10. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 10th. Savills’s dividend payout ratio is presently 64.33%.

About Savills

Founded in the UK in 1855, Savills is one of the world’s leading property agents. Our experience and expertise spans the globe, with 600 offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.

Our scale gives us wide-ranging specialist and local knowledge, and we take pride in providing best-in-class advice as we help individuals, businesses and institutions make better property decisions.