Robert Berthold Espey Buys 200 Shares of Boyd Group Services Inc. (TSE:BYD) Stock

Boyd Group Services Inc. (TSE:BYD) Director Robert Berthold Espey purchased 200 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, November 26th. The stock was purchased at an average cost of C$220.00 per share, for a total transaction of C$44,000.00.

Boyd Group Services Trading Up 0.4 %

Shares of Boyd Group Services stock opened at C$217.23 on Friday. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of C$214.63 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of C$229.46. The company has a market cap of C$4.66 billion, a P/E ratio of 58.07, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of -56.72 and a beta of 0.99. Boyd Group Services Inc. has a fifty-two week low of C$198.61 and a fifty-two week high of C$324.75. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 146.14, a quick ratio of 0.30 and a current ratio of 0.61.

Boyd Group Services (TSE:BYD) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November 5th. The company reported C$0.20 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of C$0.66 by C($0.46). Boyd Group Services had a return on equity of 7.21% and a net margin of 1.93%. The firm had revenue of C$1.03 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of C$1.03 billion. As a group, equities analysts predict that Boyd Group Services Inc. will post 7.1452646 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Boyd Group Services Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, October 29th. Investors of record on Monday, September 30th were given a dividend of $0.15 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, September 27th. This represents a $0.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.28%. Boyd Group Services’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 16.00%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities research analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. Raymond James dropped their price objective on shares of Boyd Group Services from C$295.00 to C$285.00 in a report on Thursday, November 7th. CIBC dropped their price objective on shares of Boyd Group Services from C$290.00 to C$268.00 in a report on Friday, August 9th. Stifel Nicolaus dropped their price objective on shares of Boyd Group Services from C$280.00 to C$275.00 in a report on Monday, October 28th. BMO Capital Markets dropped their price objective on shares of Boyd Group Services from C$260.00 to C$250.00 in a report on Wednesday, November 6th. Finally, National Bankshares dropped their price objective on shares of Boyd Group Services from C$270.00 to C$245.00 in a report on Wednesday, November 6th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, eight have given a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of C$277.75.

Boyd Group Services Company Profile

Boyd Group Services Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates non-franchised collision repair centers in North America. The company operates its locations under the Boyd Autobody & Glass and Assured Automotive names in Canada; and Gerber Collision & Glass name in the United States. It also operates as a retail auto glass operator under the Gerber Collision & Glass, Glass America, Auto Glass Service, Auto Glass Authority, and Autoglassonly.com names in the United States.