Analysts Set AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) PT at GBX 1,265

AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) has been assigned an average recommendation of “Hold” from the eight ratings firms that are currently covering the firm, Marketbeat reports. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company. The average 12 month price objective among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is GBX 1,265.

A number of equities research analysts recently weighed in on AJB shares. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised their target price on shares of AJ Bell from GBX 600 to GBX 675 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, June 9th. Berenberg Bank increased their price target on shares of AJ Bell from GBX 560 to GBX 590 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 28th. UBS Group restated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 630 price objective on shares of AJ Bell in a research report on Monday, May 18th. Shore Capital Group reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of AJ Bell in a report on Friday, April 24th. Finally, Citigroup upped their target price on shares of AJ Bell from GBX 5,200 to GBX 6,000 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Thursday, June 11th.

AJ Bell Price Performance

AJ Bell stock opened at GBX 589 on Thursday. The stock has a market cap of £2.33 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.42, a PEG ratio of 5.73 and a beta of 0.87. The company has a quick ratio of 7.16, a current ratio of 109.52 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.73. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of GBX 606.48 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 524.94. AJ Bell has a 52 week low of GBX 414.40 and a 52 week high of GBX 662.50.

AJ Bell (LON:AJB) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 21st. The company reported GBX 14.70 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. AJ Bell had a return on equity of 57.35% and a net margin of 35.42%.The firm had revenue of £182.96 million during the quarter. On average, research analysts forecast that AJ Bell will post 23.8118812 earnings per share 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.