Jaime Gilinski Bacal Purchases 534,703 Shares of Metro Bank (LON:MTRO) Stock

Metro Bank Holdings PLC (LON:MTRO) insider Jaime Gilinski Bacal acquired 534,703 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, March 5th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 114 per share, with a total value of £609,561.42.

Jaime Gilinski Bacal also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Tuesday, December 23rd, Jaime Gilinski Bacal bought 500,000 shares of Metro Bank stock. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 121 per share, for a total transaction of £605,000.

Metro Bank Trading Up 2.1%

Shares of MTRO traded up GBX 2.40 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting GBX 117.20. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,140,201 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,308,371. The company’s 50-day moving average is GBX 127.04 and its 200-day moving average is GBX 120.49. Metro Bank Holdings PLC has a 52-week low of GBX 76.40 and a 52-week high of GBX 140. The firm has a market capitalization of £789.10 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 7.46 and a beta of 2.33.

Metro Bank (LON:MTRO) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, March 4th. The company reported GBX 7.80 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Metro Bank had a net margin of 8.10% and a return on equity of 5.16%. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that Metro Bank Holdings PLC will post 521.5384615 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Metro Bank Company Profile

Metro Bank Holdings PLC operates as the bank holding company for Metro Bank PLC that provides various banking products and services in the United Kingdom. It offers personal banking products and services, including current, cash, and foreign currency accounts; savings; residential and buy-to-let mortgages; overdrafts; credit cards; pet insurance; and safe deposit box services. The company also provides business banking products and services comprising business bank, commercial and community current, foreign currency, and insolvency practitioner accounts; deposit accounts, such as business and community instant access deposit, business notice, client premium and flexible client term deposit, and business and community fixed term deposit accounts; insurance products; and business and commercial loans and overdrafts, asset and invoice financing, bounce back loans, business credit cards, and recovery loan schemes services.