AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) Receives Consensus Recommendation of “Hold” from Analysts

AJ Bell plc (LON:AJB) has received a consensus rating of “Hold” from the eight research firms that are covering the firm, MarketBeat.com reports. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company. The average 1-year price objective among brokers that have covered the stock in the last year is GBX 576.25.

AJB has been the subject of several recent research reports. Shore Capital Group restated a “hold” rating on shares of AJ Bell in a report on Friday, April 24th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised their price target on AJ Bell from GBX 600 to GBX 675 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday. Berenberg Bank raised their price target on AJ Bell from GBX 490 to GBX 560 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, May 22nd. UBS Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 630 price target on shares of AJ Bell in a research note on Monday, May 18th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada raised their price target on AJ Bell from GBX 500 to GBX 510 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Friday, May 15th.

AJ Bell Stock Performance

Shares of AJB opened at GBX 598.50 on Wednesday. AJ Bell has a 12 month low of GBX 414.40 and a 12 month high of GBX 651.34. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 546.19 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 488.67. The stock has a market capitalization of £2.36 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.73, a PEG ratio of 5.73 and a beta of 0.82. The company has a current ratio of 109.52, a quick ratio of 7.16 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.73.

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