Seplat Energy Plc (LON:SEPL) Insider Purchases £20,000 in Stock

Seplat Energy Plc (LON:SEPL) insider Udoma Udo Udoma purchased 10,000 shares of Seplat Energy stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, December 19th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 200 ($2.51) per share, for a total transaction of £20,000 ($25,135.10).

Seplat Energy Stock Performance

Shares of Seplat Energy stock opened at GBX 200 ($2.51) on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 1.48, a quick ratio of 1.40 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 42.43. Seplat Energy Plc has a 1-year low of GBX 120.60 ($1.52) and a 1-year high of GBX 243 ($3.05). The company has a market cap of £1.18 billion, a PE ratio of 1,818.18, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.09 and a beta of 0.45. The company has a 50 day moving average of GBX 214.15 and a 200-day moving average of GBX 199.64.

Seplat Energy Increases Dividend

The company also recently declared a dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, November 27th. Stockholders of record on Monday, November 11th were paid a $0.04 dividend. This represents a dividend yield of 1.2%. This is a boost from Seplat Energy’s previous dividend of $0.03. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, November 11th. Seplat Energy’s dividend payout ratio is presently 8,181.82%.

About Seplat Energy

Seplat Energy Plc engages in the oil and gas exploration and production, and gas processing activities in Nigeria, the Bahamas, Italy, Switzerland, Barbados, and England. It operates through two segments, Oil and Gas. The Oil segment explores, develops, and produces crude oil. Its Gas segment produces and processes gas.