J D Wetherspoon plc (JDW) To Go Ex-Dividend on May 1st

J D Wetherspoon plc (LON:JDW) announced a dividend on Friday, March 21st, DividendData.Co.Uk reports. Investors of record on Thursday, May 1st will be paid a dividend of GBX 4 ($0.05) per share on Friday, May 30th. This represents a dividend yield of 0.67%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 1st. The official announcement can be viewed at this link.

J D Wetherspoon Stock Down 9.4 %

Shares of J D Wetherspoon stock opened at GBX 541 ($6.99) on Friday. J D Wetherspoon has a one year low of GBX 526 ($6.79) and a one year high of GBX 812.50 ($10.49). The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 283.19, a quick ratio of 0.19 and a current ratio of 0.35. The firm has a fifty day moving average of GBX 599.65 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 637.51. The company has a market cap of £634.65 million, a P/E ratio of 13.77, a PEG ratio of 3.39 and a beta of 1.34.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, Shore Capital reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of J D Wetherspoon in a report on Friday.

About J D Wetherspoon

J D Wetherspoon plc owns and operates pubs and hotels in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. The company was founded in 1979 and is based in Watford, the United Kingdom.