Insider Buying: Vodafone Group Public Limited (LON:VOD) Insider Acquires £45,264.24 in Stock

Vodafone Group Public Limited (LON:VOD) insider Van Boxmeer bought 62,867 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, August 7th. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 72 ($0.92) per share, with a total value of £45,264.24 ($57,845.67).

Vodafone Group Public Stock Performance

Shares of LON:VOD opened at GBX 73.80 ($0.94) on Friday. The business’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 71.30 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 69.83. Vodafone Group Public Limited has a fifty-two week low of GBX 62.71 ($0.80) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 82.56 ($1.06). The stock has a market capitalization of £19.97 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 1,845.00, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.59 and a beta of 0.49. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 93.42, a current ratio of 1.31 and a quick ratio of 0.78.

Vodafone Group Public Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, August 2nd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 6th were issued a dividend of €0.05 ($0.05) per share. This represents a dividend yield of 5.53%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, June 6th. Vodafone Group Public’s payout ratio is presently 20,000.00%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of brokerages have weighed in on VOD. Barclays upped their price target on Vodafone Group Public from GBX 80 ($1.02) to GBX 85 ($1.09) and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 15th. Citigroup reiterated a “neutral” rating and issued a GBX 70 ($0.89) price target on shares of Vodafone Group Public in a research report on Friday, July 12th.

About Vodafone Group Public

Vodafone Group Public Limited Company provides telecommunication services in Europe and internationally. It offers mobile connectivity services comprising end-to-end services for mobile voice and data, messaging, device management, BYOx, and telecoms management, as well as professional and consulting services; and fixed line connectivity, such as fixed voice and data, broadband, software-defined networks, managed WAN, LAN, ethernet, and satellite; and financial services, as well as business and merchant services.