Diploma PLC (LON:DPLM – Get Rating)’s share price reached a new 52-week high during trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as GBX 3,132.87 ($38.95) and last traded at GBX 3,126 ($38.86), with a volume of 15171 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at GBX 3,070 ($38.17).
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
A number of equities research analysts have weighed in on DPLM shares. Berenberg Bank reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 3,360 ($41.77) target price on shares of Diploma in a report on Tuesday, May 16th. Shore Capital reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Diploma in a research note on Wednesday, May 24th. Numis Securities reissued a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 3,700 ($46.00) price target on shares of Diploma in a research note on Friday, March 17th. Jefferies Financial Group reissued a “hold” rating and set a GBX 2,600 ($32.32) price target on shares of Diploma in a research report on Friday, March 17th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. reissued an “underweight” rating and set a GBX 2,400 ($29.84) price objective on shares of Diploma in a research note on Tuesday, May 16th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of GBX 2,944.29 ($36.60).
Diploma Stock Performance
The company’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 2,814.44 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 2,812.82. The company has a quick ratio of 0.80, a current ratio of 1.87 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 33.34. The stock has a market cap of £4.19 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 3,265.96, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.82 and a beta of 0.69.
Diploma Cuts Dividend
Diploma Company Profile
Diploma PLC, together with its subsidiaries, supplies specialized technical products and services in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, North America, and internationally. It operates through three business sectors: Life Sciences, Seals, and Controls. The Life Sciences sector supplies clinical diagnostics instrumentation and products, instrumentation and consumables, specialty surgical devices, and related consumables and services to public hospitals, private clinics, pathology laboratories, scientific research, and medical segments; surgical equipment for hospital operating rooms; and distributes laboratory diagnostics, specialty medical devices, devices, equipment, and patient monitoring technologies used in operating theatres, as well as medically supervised nutrition.
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