AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) Receives GBX 1,261.25 Average Target Price from Analysts

Shares of AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) have been assigned an average recommendation of “Hold” from the eight research firms that are currently covering the stock, MarketBeat.com reports. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and three have assigned a buy recommendation to the company. The average 1 year target price among brokers that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is GBX 1,261.25.

A number of equities analysts have issued reports on AJB shares. UBS Group reiterated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 630 price target on shares of AJ Bell in a research report on Monday, May 18th. Jefferies Financial Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 625 price objective on shares of AJ Bell in a research report on Friday, May 15th. Shore Capital Group reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of AJ Bell in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Berenberg Bank increased their target price on AJ Bell from GBX 490 to GBX 560 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, May 22nd. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada lifted their price target on shares of AJ Bell from GBX 500 to GBX 510 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Friday, May 15th.

AJ Bell Stock Performance

Shares of LON AJB opened at GBX 620 on Friday. The company’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 582.72 and its 200 day moving average price is GBX 504.17. AJ Bell has a 1 year low of GBX 414.40 and a 1 year high of GBX 920.25. The company has a market capitalization of £2.45 billion, a PE ratio of 20.44, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.73 and a beta of 0.86. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.73, a quick ratio of 7.16 and a current ratio of 109.52.

AJ Bell (LON:AJB) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 21st. The company reported GBX 14.70 earnings per share for the quarter. AJ Bell had a net margin of 35.42% and a return on equity of 57.35%. The company had revenue of £182.96 million during the quarter. On average, research analysts predict that AJ Bell will post 23.8118812 earnings per share for the current year.

AJ Bell Company Profile

Established in 1995, AJ Bell is one of the largest investment platforms in the UK, operating at scale in both the advised and direct-to-consumer markets.

Our purpose is to help people invest by providing them with easy access to Pensions, ISAs and General investment accounts, great customer service and competitive charges.

Our two core platform propositions are AJ Bell in the D2C market and AJ Bell Investcentre in the advised market, which both provide access to a broad investment range including shares and other instruments traded on the major stock exchanges around the world, as well as all mainstream collective investments available in the UK and our own range of AJ Bell funds.