Breedon Group plc (BREE) To Go Ex-Dividend on April 3rd

Breedon Group plc (LON:BREE) declared a dividend on Wednesday, March 5th, DividendData.Co.Uk reports. Investors of record on Thursday, April 3rd will be paid a dividend of GBX 10 ($0.13) per share on Friday, May 16th. This represents a yield of 2.09%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 3rd. This is a 122.2% increase from Breedon Group’s previous dividend of $4.50. The official announcement can be seen at this link.

Breedon Group Price Performance

Shares of Breedon Group stock opened at GBX 450.78 ($5.82) on Tuesday. Breedon Group has a 52 week low of GBX 356 ($4.60) and a 52 week high of GBX 501 ($6.47). The company has a current ratio of 1.44, a quick ratio of 1.12 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 44.86. The company’s 50-day moving average price is GBX 451.02 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 442.10. The stock has a market cap of £1.55 billion, a PE ratio of 16.14, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.56 and a beta of 1.29.

Breedon Group (LON:BREE) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, March 5th. The company reported GBX 14.50 ($0.19) EPS for the quarter. Breedon Group had a net margin of 6.34% and a return on equity of 8.58%. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that Breedon Group will post 36.8586859 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, Berenberg Bank boosted their target price on Breedon Group from GBX 540 ($6.98) to GBX 590 ($7.62) and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, March 6th.

Breedon Group Company Profile

Breedon Group plc, a leading vertically-integrated construction materials group in Great Britain, Ireland and the USA, delivers essential products to the construction sector. Breedon holds 1.5bn tonnes of mineral reserves and resources with long reserve life, supplying value-added products and services, including specialty materials, surfacing and highway maintenance operations, to a broad range of customers through its extensive local network of quarries, ready-mixed concrete and asphalt plants.