Sonic Healthcare Limited (ASX:SHL) Insider Katharine Giles Acquires 850 Shares

Sonic Healthcare Limited (ASX:SHL) insider Katharine Giles acquired 850 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, April 8th. The shares were acquired at an average price of A$24.72 ($15.26) per share, with a total value of A$21,012.00 ($12,970.37).

Sonic Healthcare Price Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 57.03, a current ratio of 1.01 and a quick ratio of 0.96. The firm has a market cap of $13.84 billion, a PE ratio of 26.85, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of -1.19 and a beta of 0.51.

Sonic Healthcare Increases Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a Interim dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, March 19th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, March 19th were paid a dividend of $0.44 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, March 4th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.61%. This is a positive change from Sonic Healthcare’s previous Interim dividend of $0.43. Sonic Healthcare’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 99.07%.

Sonic Healthcare Company Profile

Sonic Healthcare Limited offers medical diagnostic services to medical practitioners, hospitals, community health services, and their collective patients. The company provides laboratory medicine/pathology testing services, such as biochemistry, cytopathology, genetics, haematology, histopathology, immunoserology, microbiology, molecular pathology, prenatal testing, toxicology, and ancillary functions; and radiology services, including magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, X-ray, mammography, nuclear medicine, PET CT, interventional procedures, and bone mineral densitometry.