Personal Assets (LON:PNL) Reaches New 1-Year High – Should You Buy?

Personal Assets (LON:PNL) reached a new 52-week high on Tuesday . The company traded as high as GBX 507.90 ($6.32) and last traded at GBX 507 ($6.31), with a volume of 754398 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at GBX 505 ($6.28).

Personal Assets Trading Up 0.6 %

The firm has a fifty day moving average of GBX 499.06 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 493.19. The company has a market capitalization of £1.65 billion, a PE ratio of 4,234.17 and a beta of 0.19.

Personal Assets (LON:PNL) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, December 4th. The company reported GBX 4.67 ($0.06) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Personal Assets had a net margin of 66.46% and a return on equity of 2.49%.

Personal Assets Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Friday, January 24th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 12th were given a GBX 1.40 ($0.02) dividend. This represents a dividend yield of 0.28%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, December 12th. Personal Assets’s payout ratio is 5,000.00%.

About Personal Assets

Personal Assets is what its name implies. It is an investment trust run for private investors, who may often have committed to it a substantial proportion of their personal wealth. Its investment policy is to protect and increase (in that order) the value of shareholders’ funds per share over the long term.