Luisa Wright Buys 2,442 Shares of Dunelm Group (LON:DNLM) Stock

Dunelm Group plc (LON:DNLM) insider Luisa Wright bought 2,442 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, February 13th. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 963 per share, for a total transaction of £23,516.46.

Dunelm Group Stock Performance

Shares of DNLM opened at GBX 973.50 on Monday. The firm has a market cap of £1.97 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.68, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of -10.32 and a beta of 1.18. The company’s fifty day moving average is GBX 1,045.49 and its 200-day moving average is GBX 1,106.65. The company has a quick ratio of 0.16, a current ratio of 1.04 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 236.84. Dunelm Group plc has a 12 month low of GBX 836.61 and a 12 month high of GBX 1,249.

Dunelm Group (LON:DNLM) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 10th. The company reported GBX 42 EPS for the quarter. Dunelm Group had a return on equity of 96.64% and a net margin of 8.86%. Equities analysts expect that Dunelm Group plc will post 77.0957096 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities research analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. Shore Capital Group lowered their price objective on shares of Dunelm Group from GBX 1,300 to GBX 1,200 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, January 27th. Jefferies Financial Group upgraded shares of Dunelm Group to a “buy” rating and set a GBX 1,075 price target on the stock in a research note on Monday, February 9th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their price objective on shares of Dunelm Group from GBX 1,140 to GBX 1,240 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Tuesday, October 28th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft lowered their price target on shares of Dunelm Group from GBX 1,360 to GBX 1,200 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Friday, January 16th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada raised Dunelm Group to an “outperform” rating and upped their price objective for the stock from GBX 1,200 to GBX 1,300 in a report on Monday, November 3rd. Seven research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, one has issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, Dunelm Group currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of GBX 1,216.67.

Dunelm Group Company Profile

Dunelm is the UK’s market leader in homewares with a purpose ‘to help create the joy of truly feeling at home, now and for generations to come’. Its specialist customer proposition offers value, quality, choice and style across an extensive range of c.70,000 products, spanning multiple homewares and furniture categories and including services such as Made to Measure window treatments.

The business was founded in 1979 by the Adderley family, beginning as a curtains stall on Leicester market before expanding its store footprint.