Franchise Brands (LON:FRAN) Posts Earnings Results

Franchise Brands (LON:FRAN) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday. The company reported GBX 8.59 ($0.11) EPS for the quarter, Digital Look Earnings reports. Franchise Brands had a net margin of 6.43% and a return on equity of 3.60%.

Franchise Brands Price Performance

LON FRAN opened at GBX 146 ($1.89) on Friday. The company has a market cap of £282.20 million, a PE ratio of 36.66 and a beta of 0.82. The company has a quick ratio of 1.57, a current ratio of 1.39 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 42.67. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 143.11 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 153.14. Franchise Brands has a 52 week low of GBX 131 ($1.70) and a 52 week high of GBX 210 ($2.72).

Franchise Brands Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, May 23rd. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 8th will be paid a GBX 1.30 ($0.02) dividend. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 8th. This is a positive change from Franchise Brands’s previous dividend of $1.10. This represents a dividend yield of 0.95%. Franchise Brands’s payout ratio is presently 50.21%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, insider Louise George bought 100,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, February 10th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 148 ($1.92) per share, for a total transaction of £148,000 ($191,610.56). Also, insider Peter Kear acquired 35,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, January 30th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 136 ($1.76) per share, with a total value of £47,600 ($61,626.10). 39.04% of the stock is owned by insiders.

About Franchise Brands

Franchise Brands is an international, multi-brand franchisor focused on building market-leading businesses primarily via a franchise model. The Group has a combined network of over 625 franchisees across seven franchise brands in ten countries covering the UK, North America and Europe.

Franchise Brands’ focus is on B2B van-based reactive and planned services.