XPS Pensions Group plc Announces Dividend of GBX 3.70 (LON:XPS)

XPS Pensions Group plc (LON:XPS) declared a dividend on Thursday, November 21st,Upcoming Dividends.Co.Uk reports. Stockholders of record on Thursday, January 9th will be given a dividend of GBX 3.70 ($0.05) per share on Friday, February 7th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.03%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, January 9th. The official announcement can be accessed at this link.

XPS Pensions Group Price Performance

Shares of LON XPS opened at GBX 353 ($4.44) on Friday. The stock has a market cap of £729.86 million, a P/E ratio of 1,428.00 and a beta of 0.57. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 328.88 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 305.50. XPS Pensions Group has a fifty-two week low of GBX 194.65 ($2.45) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 377 ($4.75). The company has a quick ratio of 1.51, a current ratio of 1.27 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 17.51.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

XPS has been the subject of a number of research analyst reports. Shore Capital reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of XPS Pensions Group in a research note on Thursday. Canaccord Genuity Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 401 ($5.05) target price on shares of XPS Pensions Group in a research report on Thursday.

Insider Activity

In other XPS Pensions Group news, insider Alan Bannatyne bought 13,033 shares of XPS Pensions Group stock in a transaction on Thursday, November 21st. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 349 ($4.39) per share, for a total transaction of £45,485.17 ($57,264.47). Also, insider Snehal Shah sold 66,830 shares of XPS Pensions Group stock in a transaction on Wednesday, October 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 335 ($4.22), for a total transaction of £223,880.50 ($281,858.87). 5.14% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

About XPS Pensions Group

XPS Pensions Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides employee benefit consultancy and related business services in the United Kingdom. It offers pension advisory; independent consultancy; DB master trust schemes; and self-invested personal pension (SIPP) and SSAS pension services. The company also provides pension administer services, such as payroll, scheme administration, outsourcing, payroll, scheme accounting, and scam identification and protection services, as well as member communication, de-risking projects, GMP equalization, data audits and cleansing, and trustee secretarial services.