Severn Trent (LON:SVT) Sets New 52-Week Low – Here’s Why

Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT)’s stock price hit a new 52-week low during trading on Thursday . The company traded as low as GBX 12.89 ($0.16) and last traded at GBX 2,494 ($31.14), with a volume of 2847012 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at GBX 2,472 ($30.87).

Severn Trent Stock Performance

The company has a market capitalization of £7.32 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 4,778.43, a PEG ratio of 4.69 and a beta of 0.38. The company has a quick ratio of 0.73, a current ratio of 2.14 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 450.94. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 2,563.81 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 2,570.95.

Severn Trent (LON:SVT) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, November 20th. The company reported GBX 58 ($0.72) EPS for the quarter. Severn Trent had a net margin of 6.00% and a return on equity of 10.00%. As a group, analysts forecast that Severn Trent PLC will post 107.3706004 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Severn Trent Cuts Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Friday, January 10th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, November 28th were paid a dividend of GBX 48.68 ($0.61) per share. This represents a yield of 1.81%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, November 28th. Severn Trent’s payout ratio is currently 22,941.18%.

About Severn Trent

As one of Britain’s largest water companies, we provide over eight million people across our region with fresh, clean drinking water – about two billion litres every day. And when they’ve finished with it, we take it away again then clean and treat it before returning it safely back to the environment.

We are one of only three listed water stocks in the UK, offering a valuable combination of reliable earnings, long term asset growth and an inflation-linked dividend.