Mandy Gradden Sells 12,171 Shares of Ascential plc (LON:ASCL) Stock

Ascential plc (LON:ASCL) insider Mandy Gradden sold 12,171 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, September 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 569 ($7.48), for a total value of £69,252.99 ($91,062.45).

Ascential Price Performance

Shares of LON ASCL opened at GBX 569 ($7.48) on Friday. The firm has a market cap of £1.15 billion, a PE ratio of 4,741.67, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.06 and a beta of 1.23. The company has a quick ratio of 0.92, a current ratio of 0.90 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.25. The business has a 50 day moving average price of GBX 495.27 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 378.02. Ascential plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 312.50 ($4.11) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 580 ($7.63).

Analyst Ratings Changes

ASCL has been the subject of a number of recent research reports. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 433 ($5.69) target price on shares of Ascential in a research note on Tuesday, June 18th. Berenberg Bank lifted their price objective on shares of Ascential from GBX 395 ($5.19) to GBX 568 ($7.47) and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, July 25th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Ascential presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of GBX 428.67 ($5.64).

Ascential Company Profile

Ascential plc provides specialist information, analytics, and e-commerce optimization platforms in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, the United States, Canada, China, rest of the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The company operates in two segments, Marketing and Financial Technology.