Essentra plc (LON:ESNT) Increases Dividend to GBX 1.55 Per Share

Essentra plc (LON:ESNT) announced a dividend on Wednesday, March 19th, DividendData.Co.Uk reports. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 15th will be given a dividend of GBX 1.55 ($0.02) per share on Thursday, July 3rd. This represents a dividend yield of 1.41%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 15th. This is a 24.0% increase from Essentra’s previous dividend of $1.25. The official announcement can be accessed at this link.

Essentra Trading Down 3.1 %

LON ESNT opened at GBX 106.80 ($1.38) on Friday. The stock’s 50-day moving average is GBX 119.85 and its 200-day moving average is GBX 138.04. Essentra has a one year low of GBX 105.60 ($1.37) and a one year high of GBX 191.80 ($2.49). The firm has a market cap of £306.98 million, a P/E ratio of 87.98, a P/E/G ratio of 3.84 and a beta of 1.18. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 51.89, a current ratio of 1.97 and a quick ratio of 0.50.

Essentra (LON:ESNT) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, March 19th. The company reported GBX 8.50 ($0.11) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Essentra had a return on equity of 1.28% and a net margin of 1.13%. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Essentra will post 524.137931 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity at Essentra

In other news, insider Steve Good bought 35,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, March 20th. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 109 ($1.41) per share, with a total value of £38,150 ($49,468.36). 0.99% of the stock is owned by insiders.

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