Insider Selling: Judges Scientific plc (LON:JDG) Insider Sells £2,287,488 in Stock

Judges Scientific plc (LON:JDG) insider Bradley Leonard Ormsby sold 20,424 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, April 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of £112 ($139.42), for a total transaction of £2,287,488 ($2,847,613.59).

Judges Scientific Price Performance

Shares of LON:JDG opened at £109.50 ($136.31) on Friday. Judges Scientific plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 7,300 ($90.88) and a fifty-two week high of £118.98 ($148.11). The business has a 50-day simple moving average of £107.35 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 9,548.92. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 79.06, a quick ratio of 0.65 and a current ratio of 1.87. The firm has a market cap of £724.89 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 7,604.17, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.56 and a beta of 0.88.

Judges Scientific Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, July 5th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 6th will be given a GBX 68 ($0.85) dividend. This is a positive change from Judges Scientific’s previous dividend of $27.00. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 6th. This represents a yield of 0.59%. Judges Scientific’s payout ratio is 6,597.22%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, Shore Capital reaffirmed a “house stock” rating on shares of Judges Scientific in a research report on Thursday, March 21st.

About Judges Scientific

Judges Scientific plc designs, manufactures, and sells scientific instruments. The company offers engineering teaching and research equipment for universities, colleges, schools, and research centres; and research and development systems for food, beverage, dairy, edible oil, and pharmaceutical industries.