Insider Buying: JPMorgan UK Smaller Companies (LON:JMI) Insider Purchases £5,200 in Stock

JPMorgan UK Smaller Companies (LON:JMI) insider Gordon Humphries bought 2,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, November 15th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 260 ($3.19) per share, for a total transaction of £5,200 ($6,385.85).

JPMorgan UK Smaller Companies Stock Performance

LON JMI opened at GBX 265 ($3.25) on Friday. The company has a market cap of £206.83 million, a P/E ratio of -1,656.25 and a beta of 1.30. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 8.83, a quick ratio of 0.42 and a current ratio of 0.17. The business’s 50 day moving average price is GBX 253.43 and its 200-day moving average price is GBX 265.82. JPMorgan UK Smaller Companies has a fifty-two week low of GBX 229 ($2.81) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 303.18 ($3.72).

JPMorgan UK Smaller Companies Increases Dividend

The business also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, December 7th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, October 26th will be given a dividend of GBX 7.70 ($0.09) per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 26th. This represents a dividend yield of 3.06%. This is an increase from JPMorgan UK Smaller Companies’s previous dividend of $6.90. JPMorgan UK Smaller Companies’s payout ratio is currently -5,000.00%.

JPMorgan UK Smaller Companies Company Profile

JPMorgan Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc is a close-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by JPMorgan Funds Limited. The fund is co-managed by JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited. It invests in the public equity markets of the United Kingdom. The fund invests in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors.