Severn Trent (LON:SVT) Sets New 12-Month Low – Here’s What Happened

Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT)’s share price reached a new 52-week low during mid-day trading on Thursday . The company traded as low as GBX 12.89 ($0.16) and last traded at GBX 2,494 ($31.14), with a volume of 2847012 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 2,472 ($30.87).

Severn Trent Price Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 450.94, a quick ratio of 0.73 and a current ratio of 2.14. The company’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 2,563.81 and its 200 day moving average price is GBX 2,570.95. The firm has a market capitalization of £7.32 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 4,778.43, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.69 and a beta of 0.38.

Severn Trent (LON:SVT) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, November 20th. The company reported GBX 58 ($0.72) EPS for the quarter. Severn Trent had a return on equity of 10.00% and a net margin of 6.00%. Equities research analysts expect that Severn Trent PLC will post 107.3706004 earnings per share for the current year.

Severn Trent Cuts Dividend

The business also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, January 10th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, November 28th were given a GBX 48.68 ($0.61) dividend. This represents a yield of 1.81%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, November 28th. Severn Trent’s dividend payout ratio is presently 22,941.18%.

Severn Trent Company Profile

As one of Britain’s largest water companies, we provide over eight million people across our region with fresh, clean drinking water – about two billion litres every day. And when they’ve finished with it, we take it away again then clean and treat it before returning it safely back to the environment.

We are one of only three listed water stocks in the UK, offering a valuable combination of reliable earnings, long term asset growth and an inflation-linked dividend.