Helen Cunningham Buys 6,237 Shares of Hays (LON:HAS) Stock

Hays plc (LON:HAS) insider Helen Cunningham acquired 6,237 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 24th. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 32 per share, for a total transaction of £1,995.84.

Hays Stock Performance

LON:HAS opened at GBX 33.50 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of £535.62 million, a PE ratio of -68.37, a P/E/G ratio of 0.24 and a beta of 0.75. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of GBX 42.13 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 51.30. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 65.55, a quick ratio of 1.31 and a current ratio of 1.27. Hays plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 30.64 and a fifty-two week high of GBX 84.35.

Hays (LON:HAS) last released its quarterly earnings results on Friday, February 27th. The company reported GBX 0.46 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Hays had a negative net margin of 0.16% and a negative return on equity of 2.24%. Research analysts anticipate that Hays plc will post 4.0966184 earnings per share for the current year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft dropped their target price on shares of Hays from GBX 100 to GBX 90 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, January 14th. Three equities research 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 an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of GBX 81.20.

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