Insider Buying: Jupiter Fund Management Plc (LON:JUP) Insider Buys £24,750 in Stock

Jupiter Fund Management Plc (LON:JUPGet Free Report) insider Dale Jane Murray bought 33,000 shares of Jupiter Fund Management stock in a transaction on Friday, February 28th. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 75 ($0.97) per share, for a total transaction of £24,750 ($31,902.55).

Jupiter Fund Management Stock Up 3.4 %

Shares of LON JUP opened at GBX 76.70 ($0.99) on Thursday. The stock has a market capitalization of £392.94 million, a PE ratio of -44.26 and a beta of 1.42. The company has a current ratio of 1.70, a quick ratio of 1.79 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 11.23. Jupiter Fund Management Plc has a 12-month low of GBX 72.70 ($0.94) and a 12-month high of GBX 93.95 ($1.21). The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is GBX 79.97 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 82.48.

Jupiter Fund Management (LON:JUPGet Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 27th. The company reported GBX 13.40 ($0.17) earnings per share for the quarter. Jupiter Fund Management had a negative net margin of 2.34% and a negative return on equity of 1.13%. As a group, analysts expect that Jupiter Fund Management Plc will post 8.5093781 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, Citigroup reduced their target price on shares of Jupiter Fund Management from GBX 92 ($1.19) to GBX 80 ($1.03) and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, January 23rd. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating and four have assigned a hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of GBX 89 ($1.15).

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About Jupiter Fund Management

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Jupiter Fund Management Plc is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm manages mutual funds, hedge funds, client focused portfolios, and multi-manager products for its clients. It invests in the public equity markets across U.K., Europe and global emerging markets. The firm also invests in fixed income markets, fund of funds products, hedge funds, and absolute return funds.

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