Ibstock plc (LON:IBST - Get Free Report) shares crossed above its fifty day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a fifty day moving average of GBX 182.19 ($2.44) and traded as high as GBX 186 ($2.49). Ibstock shares last traded at GBX 184.80 ($2.47), with a volume of 1,064,389 shares.
Several equities research analysts have recently issued reports on IBST shares. Royal Bank of Canada reissued an "outperform" rating and issued a GBX 200 ($2.68) price objective on shares of Ibstock in a research report on Thursday, July 4th. Jefferies Financial Group boosted their target price on shares of Ibstock from GBX 143 ($1.91) to GBX 150 ($2.01) and gave the stock a "hold" rating in a research report on Thursday, June 27th.
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The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 46.91, a current ratio of 1.37 and a quick ratio of 1.19. The company has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 182.19 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 167.63. The company has a market capitalization of £726.39 million, a P/E ratio of 9,240.00, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.47 and a beta of 1.34.
The company also recently declared a dividend, which was paid on Friday, September 13th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 22nd were paid a GBX 1.50 ($0.02) dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, August 22nd. This represents a dividend yield of 0.87%. Ibstock's payout ratio is currently 25,000.00%.
Ibstock plc manufactures and sells clay and concrete building products and solutions to customers in the residential construction sector in the United Kingdom. The company offers bricks and masonry, which includes facing and engineering bricks, brick slips, special shaped bricks, walling stone, architectural masonry, prefabricated components, eco-habitats, and padstones and lintels, as well as façade systems; roofing products comprising roof tiles and accessories, and chimneys; and flooring and lintels, such as beam and block flooring, insulated flooring, hollowcore, and screed rails.
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