Jefferies Financial Group reaffirmed their hold rating on shares of Whitbread (LON:WTB – Free Report) in a research report released on Thursday,Digital Look reports. Jefferies Financial Group currently has a GBX 2,250 price target on the stock.
WTB has been the topic of a number of other reports. Berenberg Bank reaffirmed a “hold” rating and set a GBX 2,250 price objective on shares of Whitbread in a report on Thursday. Citigroup increased their target price on Whitbread from GBX 3,100 to GBX 3,300 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, August 21st. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and four have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of GBX 2,925.62.
Whitbread Stock Performance
LON WTB opened at GBX 2,743 on Thursday. The stock has a market cap of £4.58 billion, a P/E ratio of 22.41, a PEG ratio of -3.09 and a beta of 0.65. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 2,461.80 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 2,471.03. Whitbread has a twelve month low of GBX 2,098 and a twelve month high of GBX 2,964. The company has a quick ratio of 1.74, a current ratio of 0.33 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 179.41.
Whitbread (LON:WTB – Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 13th. The company reported GBX 125.10 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Whitbread had a net margin of 1.96% and a return on equity of 1.85%. As a group, research analysts forecast that Whitbread will post 227.19 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Insider Buying and Selling at Whitbread
In other Whitbread news, insider Shelley Roberts purchased 485 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, August 11th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 2,456 per share, with a total value of £11,911.60. Company insiders own 0.42% of the company’s stock.
About Whitbread
Whitbread is the owner of Premier Inn, the UK’s biggest
hotel brand, with 86,000 rooms in over 850 hotels
and a growing presence in Germany with 10,500 rooms in
59 hotels, offering quality accommodation at affordable
prices in great locations.
People are at the heart of our business. We employ over
38,000 team members in over 900 Premier Inn hotels
across the UK and Germany.
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