Matthew Lester Purchases 16,310 Shares of Kier Group plc (LON:KIE) Stock

Kier Group plc (LON:KIE) insider Matthew Lester bought 16,310 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 11th. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 123 ($1.59) per share, with a total value of £20,061.30 ($25,986.14).

Kier Group Price Performance

Shares of LON KIE opened at GBX 122.20 ($1.58) on Friday. Kier Group plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 118.80 ($1.54) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 163.27 ($2.11). The company has a market cap of £526.02 million, a PE ratio of 12.30, a P/E/G ratio of 0.29 and a beta of 1.14. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 302.83, a quick ratio of 0.69 and a current ratio of 0.88. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of GBX 144.89 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 145.49.

Kier Group (LON:KIE) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, March 11th. The company reported GBX 8.70 ($0.11) EPS for the quarter. Kier Group had a net margin of 1.09% and a return on equity of 8.23%. As a group, equities analysts expect that Kier Group plc will post 20.4913295 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, Berenberg Bank reiterated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 210 ($2.72) price objective on shares of Kier Group in a report on Thursday, January 23rd.

About Kier Group

Kier Group is a leading infrastructure services, construction and property group based in the UK.

Our purpose is to sustainably deliver infrastructure which is vital to the UK with a vision is to be the UK’s leading infrastructure services and construction company.

We operate through three segments; Infrastructure Services, Construction and Property.