Insider Buying: Hays (LON:HAS) Insider Acquires £1,950 in Stock

Hays plc (LON:HAS) insider Cheryl Millington bought 5,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 3rd. The shares were purchased at an average price of GBX 39 per share, for a total transaction of £1,950.

Hays Trading Down 1.3%

Shares of Hays stock opened at GBX 38.32 on Friday. Hays plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 38.06 and a fifty-two week high of GBX 89.85. The business’s fifty day moving average is GBX 47.46 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 53.97. The company has a quick ratio of 1.31, a current ratio of 1.27 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 65.55. The firm has a market cap of £612.69 million, a PE ratio of -78.20, a P/E/G ratio of 0.24 and a beta of 0.75.

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

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Separately, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft dropped their price objective on shares of Hays from GBX 100 to GBX 90 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note 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 data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of GBX 81.20.

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