Essentra plc (LON:ESNT) Declares Dividend Increase – GBX 1.55 Per Share

Essentra plc (LON:ESNTGet Free Report) announced a dividend on Wednesday, March 19th, DividendData.Co.Uk reports. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 15th will be paid a dividend of GBX 1.55 ($0.02) per share on Thursday, July 3rd. This represents a yield of 1.41%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 15th. This is a 24.0% increase from Essentra’s previous dividend of $1.25. The official announcement can be seen at this link.

Essentra Price Performance

Shares of LON ESNT opened at GBX 106.80 ($1.38) on Friday. The stock’s 50-day moving average is GBX 119.85 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 138.04. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 51.89, a current ratio of 1.97 and a quick ratio of 0.50. Essentra has a 1-year low of GBX 105.60 ($1.37) and a 1-year high of GBX 191.80 ($2.49). The company has a market cap of £306.98 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 87.98, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.84 and a beta of 1.18.

Essentra (LON:ESNTGet Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, March 19th. The company reported GBX 8.50 ($0.11) earnings per share for the quarter. Essentra had a return on equity of 1.28% and a net margin of 1.13%. Analysts forecast that Essentra will post 524.137931 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Essentra news, insider Steve Good acquired 35,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 20th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 109 ($1.41) per share, with a total value of £38,150 ($49,468.36). 0.99% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

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