Imperial Brands (LON:IMB) Insider Sells £66,127.13 in Stock

Imperial Brands PLC (LON:IMB) insider Jon Stanton sold 2,053 shares of Imperial Brands stock in a transaction on Monday, December 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 3,221, for a total transaction of £66,127.13.

Imperial Brands Trading Up 0.5%

Shares of IMB opened at GBX 3,197 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of £25.58 billion, a P/E ratio of 12.82, a PEG ratio of 16.51 and a beta of 0.42. Imperial Brands PLC has a twelve month low of GBX 2,521 and a twelve month high of GBX 3,329. The company has a quick ratio of 0.41, a current ratio of 0.72 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 166.91. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 3,153.43 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 3,051.25.

Imperial Brands (LON:IMB) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November 18th. The company reported GBX 315 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Imperial Brands had a net margin of 11.44% and a return on equity of 41.84%. On average, research analysts anticipate that Imperial Brands PLC will post 246.5723613 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of brokerages have recently weighed in on IMB. Citigroup lifted their price objective on Imperial Brands from GBX 3,425 to GBX 3,650 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, November 24th. Panmure Gordon reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 4,200 price target on shares of Imperial Brands in a report on Wednesday, November 19th. Jefferies Financial Group upped their price objective on shares of Imperial Brands from GBX 3,600 to GBX 3,700 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, November 26th. Royal Bank Of Canada raised their target price on shares of Imperial Brands from GBX 2,400 to GBX 2,700 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of Imperial Brands in a research report on Friday, October 3rd. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and one has assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Imperial Brands currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of GBX 3,562.50.

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