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

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

Bankers Stock Down 1.3 %

The company has a current ratio of 2.74, a quick ratio of 8.27 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 9.37. The firm has a market cap of £1.33 billion, a P/E ratio of 2,240.00 and a beta of 0.62. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is GBX 109.96 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 103.57.

Bankers Increases Dividend

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

Insider Buying and Selling at Bankers

In related news, insider Simon Edward Callum Miller bought 10,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, April 11th. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 112 ($1.38) per share, for a total transaction of £11,200 ($13,833.99). Company 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.