Kier Group (LON:KIE) Issues Earnings Results

Kier Group (LON:KIE) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday. The company reported GBX 8.70 ($0.11) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, Digital Look Earnings reports. Kier Group had a return on equity of 8.23% and a net margin of 1.09%.

Kier Group Stock Performance

Shares of LON KIE opened at GBX 123.80 ($1.61) on Thursday. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 145.39 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 145.72. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 302.83, a quick ratio of 0.69 and a current ratio of 0.88. The firm has a market cap of £532.91 million, a P/E ratio of 12.46, a PEG ratio of 0.29 and a beta of 1.14. Kier Group has a 1 year low of GBX 118.80 ($1.54) and a 1 year high of GBX 163.27 ($2.12).

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, Berenberg Bank reissued a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 210 ($2.72) price objective on shares of Kier Group in a report on Thursday, January 23rd.

Insider Buying and Selling at Kier Group

In related news, insider Matthew Lester acquired 16,310 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 11th. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 123 ($1.60) per share, for a total transaction of £20,061.30 ($26,016.47). 6.07% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Kier Group Company Profile

Kier Group is a leading infrastructure services, construction and property group based in the UK.

Our purpose is to sustainably deliver infrastructure which is vital to the UK with a vision is to be the UK’s leading infrastructure services and construction company.

We operate through three segments; Infrastructure Services, Construction and Property.