Insider Buying: Essentra plc (LON:ESNT) Insider Purchases 35,000 Shares of Stock

Essentra plc (LON:ESNT - Get Free Report) insider Steve Good bought 35,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, March 20th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 109 ($1.41) per share, for a total transaction of £38,150 ($49,257.59).

Essentra Trading Down 5.6 %

Shares of Essentra stock opened at GBX 104 ($1.34) on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of £298.93 million, a PE ratio of 85.67, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.84 and a beta of 1.18. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 51.89, a current ratio of 1.97 and a quick ratio of 0.50. The company's fifty day moving average price is GBX 119.52 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 137.81. Essentra plc has a 52-week low of GBX 103.80 ($1.34) and a 52-week high of GBX 191.80 ($2.48).

Essentra (LON:ESNT - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, March 19th. The company reported GBX 8.50 ($0.11) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Essentra had a net margin of 1.13% and a return on equity of 1.28%. On average, analysts expect that Essentra plc will post 524.137931 EPS for the current year.

Essentra Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, July 3rd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 15th will be paid a GBX 1.55 ($0.02) dividend. This represents a dividend yield of 1.41%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 15th. This is an increase from Essentra's previous dividend of $1.25. Essentra's payout ratio is currently 329.52%.

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