Brokerages Set AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) PT at GBX 540.63

AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) has been given a consensus recommendation of “Hold” by the eight brokerages that are covering the stock, MarketBeat.com reports. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company. The average 12-month target price among brokerages that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is GBX 554.38.

Several equities research analysts have recently commented on the stock. UBS Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 630 target price on shares of AJ Bell in a research note on Monday. Jefferies Financial Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 625 price target on shares of AJ Bell in a research report on Friday, May 15th. Berenberg Bank reaffirmed a “hold” rating and set a GBX 490 price objective on shares of AJ Bell in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Shore Capital Group reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of AJ Bell in a report on Friday, April 24th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada lifted their target price on shares of AJ Bell from GBX 500 to GBX 510 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Friday, May 15th.

AJ Bell Stock Performance

Shares of LON:AJB opened at GBX 604.50 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.55, a current ratio of 3.67 and a quick ratio of 7.16. The business’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 499.89 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 480.22. AJ Bell has a fifty-two week low of GBX 414.40 and a fifty-two week high of GBX 608. The stock has a market capitalization of £2.39 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 23.65, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.73 and a beta of 0.82.

AJ Bell Company Profile

Established in 1995, AJ Bell is one of the largest investment platforms in the UK, operating at scale in both the advised and direct-to-consumer markets.

Our purpose is to help people invest by providing them with easy access to Pensions, ISAs and General investment accounts, great customer service and competitive charges.

Our two core platform propositions are AJ Bell in the D2C market and AJ Bell Investcentre in the advised market, which both provide access to a broad investment range including shares and other instruments traded on the major stock exchanges around the world, as well as all mainstream collective investments available in the UK and our own range of AJ Bell funds.