AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) Given Consensus Rating of “Hold” by Brokerages

Shares of AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) have been assigned a consensus recommendation of “Hold” from the eight ratings firms that are covering the company, MarketBeat.com reports. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and three have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 1-year target price among brokers that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is GBX 576.25.

AJB has been the topic of several research reports. Jefferies Financial Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a GBX 625 price target on shares of AJ Bell in a research note on Friday, May 15th. Berenberg Bank upped their price objective on AJ Bell from GBX 490 to GBX 560 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, May 22nd. Royal Bank Of Canada raised their price target on AJ Bell from GBX 500 to GBX 510 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a research report on Friday, May 15th. Shore Capital Group reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of AJ Bell in a research report on Friday, April 24th. Finally, Citigroup raised shares of AJ Bell to a “neutral” rating and boosted their price objective for the company from GBX 500 to GBX 520 in a research report on Friday, May 8th.

AJ Bell Stock Performance

Shares of LON:AJB opened at GBX 598.50 on Wednesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.73, a current ratio of 109.52 and a quick ratio of 7.16. The stock has a market capitalization of £2.36 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.73, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.73 and a beta of 0.82. The business’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 546.19 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 488.67. AJ Bell has a fifty-two week low of GBX 414.40 and a fifty-two week high of GBX 651.34.

AJ Bell (LON:AJB) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 21st. The company reported GBX 14.70 EPS for the quarter. The company had revenue of £182.96 million for the quarter. AJ Bell had a return on equity of 57.35% and a net margin of 35.42%. As a group, analysts predict that AJ Bell will post 23.8118812 EPS for the current fiscal year.

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.