Insider Buying: Smith & Nephew plc (LON:SN) Insider Buys 71,920 Shares of Stock

Smith & Nephew plc (LON:SN) insider John Rogers bought 71,920 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, December 19th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 972 ($12.15) per share, for a total transaction of £699,062.40 ($873,718.79).

Smith & Nephew Stock Performance

Smith & Nephew stock opened at GBX 977.20 ($12.21) on Friday. The business’s fifty day moving average is GBX 1,016.23 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 1,075.48. The stock has a market capitalization of £8.52 billion, a P/E ratio of 3,619.26, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.46 and a beta of 0.62. The company has a quick ratio of 0.84, a current ratio of 2.51 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 70.22.

About Smith & Nephew

Smith & Nephew plc, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells medical devices and services in the United Kingdom and internationally. It operates through three segments: Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine & ENT, and Advanced Wound Management. The company offers knee implant products for knee replacement procedures; hip implants for revision procedures; trauma and extremities products that include internal and external devices used in the stabilization of severe fractures and deformity correction procedures; and other reconstruction products.