WPP plc (LON:WPP) Insider Andrew Scott Sells 50,492 Shares

WPP plc (LON:WPP) insider Andrew Scott sold 50,492 shares of WPP stock in a transaction dated Friday, March 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 634 ($8.23), for a total value of £320,119.28 ($415,793.32).

WPP Trading Up 0.2 %

LON:WPP opened at GBX 622.80 ($8.09) on Tuesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 215.67, a current ratio of 0.89 and a quick ratio of 0.89. WPP plc has a 1 year low of GBX 604.20 ($7.85) and a 1 year high of GBX 903 ($11.73). The company has a market cap of £6.71 billion, a P/E ratio of 32.90, a P/E/G ratio of 13.47 and a beta of 1.13. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 724.62 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 777.02.

WPP (LON:WPP) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 27th. The company reported GBX 50.30 ($0.65) earnings per share for the quarter. WPP had a return on equity of 5.92% and a net margin of 1.37%. As a group, analysts expect that WPP plc will post 81.6125654 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, JPMorgan Chase & Co. decreased their target price on WPP from GBX 1,040 ($13.51) to GBX 960 ($12.47) and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, January 7th.

About WPP

WPP is the creative transformation company, using the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities.

At WPP we’re reinventing creativity on an ever-broader canvas, bringing together unrivalled talent, resources and skills to provide an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce and technology for clients.