Hays (LON:HAS) Insider Purchases £1,995.84 in Stock

Hays plc (LON:HAS) insider Helen Cunningham bought 6,237 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 24th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 32 per share, for a total transaction of £1,995.84.

Hays Trading Up 1.6%

LON:HAS opened at GBX 32.22 on Wednesday. Hays plc has a 1 year low of GBX 30.64 and a 1 year high of GBX 84.40. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 42.73 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 51.56. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 65.55, a current ratio of 1.27 and a quick ratio of 1.31. The company has a market cap of £515.16 million, a P/E ratio of -65.76, a P/E/G ratio of 0.24 and a beta of 0.75.

Hays (LON:HAS) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, February 27th. The company reported GBX 0.46 earnings per share for the quarter. Hays had a negative return on equity of 2.24% and a negative net margin of 0.16%. As a group, analysts expect that Hays plc will post 4.0966184 EPS for the current year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reduced their target price on Hays from GBX 100 to GBX 90 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, January 14th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of GBX 81.20.

Hays Company Profile