Bankers (LON:BNKR) Hits New 1-Year High at $113.00

Bankers (LON:BNKR) shares reached a new 52-week high on Tuesday . The company traded as high as GBX 113 ($1.40) and last traded at GBX 111.47 ($1.38), with a volume of 783989 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at GBX 111 ($1.37).

Bankers Stock Down 1.3 %

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 9.37, a quick ratio of 8.27 and a current ratio of 2.74. The stock has a market capitalization of £1.33 billion, a P/E ratio of 2,240.00 and a beta of 0.62. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is GBX 109.96 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 103.57.

Bankers Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, May 31st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, April 25th will be issued a dividend of GBX 0.67 ($0.01) per share. This represents a yield of 0.63%. This is a positive change from Bankers’s previous dividend of $0.66. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 25th. Bankers’s payout ratio is presently 6,000.00%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Bankers news, insider Simon Edward Callum Miller bought 10,000 shares of Bankers stock in a transaction on Thursday, April 11th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 112 ($1.38) per share, with a total value of £11,200 ($13,833.99). Insiders own 0.84% of the company’s stock.

About Bankers

The Bankers Investment Trust PLC is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Henderson Investment Funds Limited. It is co-managed by Henderson Global Investors Limited. The fund invests in public equity markets across the globe. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors.