Insider Buying: Vesuvius plc (LON:VSVS) Insider Buys £19,893.60 in Stock

Vesuvius plc (LON:VSVS) insider Mark Collis bought 4,605 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, August 1st. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 432 ($5.56) per share, with a total value of £19,893.60 ($25,589.92).

Vesuvius Stock Performance

Shares of LON:VSVS opened at GBX 422 ($5.43) on Monday. Vesuvius plc has a twelve month low of GBX 387.02 ($4.98) and a twelve month high of GBX 509 ($6.55). The firm has a market cap of £1.12 billion, a PE ratio of 959.09, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.57 and a beta of 1.29. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 30.47, a quick ratio of 1.20 and a current ratio of 1.95. The business has a fifty day moving average of GBX 472.15 and a 200-day moving average of GBX 479.89.

Vesuvius Cuts Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, September 13th. Investors of record on Thursday, August 8th will be given a GBX 7.10 ($0.09) dividend. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 8th. This represents a yield of 1.47%. Vesuvius’s payout ratio is 5,227.27%.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, JPMorgan Chase & Co. restated a “neutral” rating and issued a GBX 490 ($6.30) target price on shares of Vesuvius in a research note on Wednesday, July 3rd.

About Vesuvius

Vesuvius plc provides molten metal flow engineering and technology services to steel and foundry casting industries worldwide. It operates through Flow Control, Sensor & Probes, and Advanced Refractories segments. The company provides consumables and equipment, which includes binders, coatings, feeding systems, filtration and gating systems, melt shop refractories, metallurgical and pouring control systems, die dressings and coatings, melt treatment products, crucibles, and ceramics for the iron, steel, and nonferrous foundries.