Karen Witts Buys 10,790 Shares of Dunelm Group (LON:DNLM) Stock

Dunelm Group plc (LON:DNLM) insider Karen Witts purchased 10,790 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 1st. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 1,104 per share, for a total transaction of £119,121.60.

Karen Witts also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Monday, October 27th, Karen Witts sold 8,478 shares of Dunelm Group stock. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 1,144, for a total value of £96,988.32.

Dunelm Group Trading Up 0.4%

Shares of Dunelm Group stock opened at GBX 1,127 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of £2.27 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.67, a P/E/G ratio of -10.32 and a beta of 1.18. Dunelm Group plc has a 52-week low of GBX 836.61 and a 52-week high of GBX 1,249. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 236.84, a quick ratio of 0.16 and a current ratio of 1.04. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 1,119.26 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 1,153.11.

Dunelm Group (LON:DNLM) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, September 9th. The company reported GBX 77.20 earnings per share for the quarter. Dunelm Group had a net margin of 8.86% and a return on equity of 96.64%. As a group, research analysts anticipate that Dunelm Group plc will post 77.0957096 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of brokerages have issued reports on DNLM. Berenberg Bank restated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 1,480 target price on shares of Dunelm Group in a research report on Tuesday, September 9th. Canaccord Genuity Group reiterated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 1,320 price objective on shares of Dunelm Group in a research note on Wednesday, September 10th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised their target price on Dunelm Group from GBX 1,320 to GBX 1,360 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, August 26th. Shore Capital initiated coverage on Dunelm Group in a research report on Tuesday, November 11th. They set a “buy” rating and a GBX 1,300 price target on the stock. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada upgraded shares of Dunelm Group to an “outperform” rating and raised their price objective for the company from GBX 1,200 to GBX 1,300 in a research report on Monday, November 3rd. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of GBX 1,397.13.

About Dunelm Group

Dunelm is the UK’s market leader in homewares with a purpose ‘to help create the joy of truly feeling at home, now and for generations to come’. Its specialist customer proposition offers value, quality, choice and style across an extensive range of c.70,000 products, spanning multiple homewares and furniture categories and including services such as Made to Measure window treatments.