Shell plc (LON:SHEL) Receives Consensus Recommendation of “Buy” from Analysts

Shell plc (LON:SHEL) has been given a consensus rating of “Buy” by the six ratings firms that are presently covering the firm, MarketBeat reports. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a buy rating. The average 1-year price objective among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is GBX 3,169.71 ($40.09).

A number of equities research analysts have recently weighed in on SHEL shares. Bank of America restated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 3,300 ($41.74) target price on shares of Shell in a research report on Monday, April 22nd. Royal Bank of Canada reissued an “outperform” rating and set a GBX 3,000 ($37.95) price objective on shares of Shell in a report on Friday, May 3rd. Finally, Barclays reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and issued a GBX 3,800 ($48.06) target price on shares of Shell in a research note on Friday, May 3rd.

Shell Stock Performance

SHEL stock opened at GBX 2,878.22 ($36.41) on Friday. The company has a 50 day moving average price of GBX 2,812.55 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 2,651.54. Shell has a fifty-two week low of GBX 2,251 ($28.47) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 2,961 ($37.45). The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 42.45, a current ratio of 1.42 and a quick ratio of 0.87. The stock has a market capitalization of £183.05 billion, a PE ratio of 1,334.65, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.80 and a beta of 0.55.

Shell Announces Dividend

The business also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Monday, June 24th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 16th were given a dividend of $0.34 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, May 16th. This represents a dividend yield of 0.98%. Shell’s payout ratio is currently 5,069.77%.

About Shell

Shell plc operates as an energy and petrochemical company Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa, the United States, and Rest of the Americas. The company operates through Integrated Gas, Upstream, Marketing, Chemicals and Products, and Renewables and Energy Solutions segments. It explores for and extracts crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids; markets and transports oil and gas; produces gas-to-liquids fuels and other products; and operates upstream and midstream infrastructure to deliver gas to market.