St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) Receives Average Recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from Analysts

St. James’s Place plc (LON:STJ) has been assigned a consensus recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the seven analysts that are currently covering the stock, MarketBeat Ratings reports. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and five have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 12 month price objective among brokers that have covered the stock in the last year is GBX 1,641.57.

Several equities analysts recently weighed in on STJ shares. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price target on shares of St. James’s Place from GBX 1,725 to GBX 1,726 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, January 21st. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised their target price on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,800 to GBX 1,900 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, October 2nd. Royal Bank Of Canada upped their price target on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,300 to GBX 1,350 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a report on Friday, January 23rd. Jefferies Financial Group raised their price objective on St. James’s Place from GBX 1,160 to GBX 1,600 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, October 20th. Finally, UBS Group reaffirmed a “neutral” rating and set a GBX 1,475 price objective on shares of St. James’s Place in a report on Friday, January 16th.

St. James’s Place Stock Down 0.2%

St. James’s Place stock opened at GBX 1,495 on Wednesday. The firm has a market capitalization of £7.77 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.85, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 1.23. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 1,396.34 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 1,321.48. St. James’s Place has a 1-year low of GBX 741.40 and a 1-year high of GBX 1,538.50. The company has a current ratio of 0.60, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 55.10.

About St. James’s Place

We plan, grow and protect the financial futures of over one million clients across the UK by providing holistic advice-led wealth management, delivered exclusively by the Partnership, our group of more than 4,900 highly skilled advisers.

We offer an integrated client proposition, through which we provide financial advice, investment product wrappers such as pensions, investment bonds and ISAs, and offer our own range of investment funds and portfolios.