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The SimplyBiz Group plc is a consulting services business based in the UK. The SimplyBiz Group shares (SBIZ.LSE) are listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and all prices are listed in pence sterling. The SimplyBiz Group employs 500 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around £62.6 million.
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- Is The SimplyBiz Group stock a buy or sell?
- Are The SimplyBiz Group shares over-valued?
- The SimplyBiz Group's financials
- How volatile are The SimplyBiz Group shares?
- Does The SimplyBiz Group pay a dividend?
- Other common questions
The SimplyBiz Group share price
Use our graph to track the performance of SBIZ stocks over time.The SimplyBiz Group shares at a glance
Information last updated 2021-01-24.
| Latest market close | N/Ap |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | 128p - 238.2993p |
| 50-day moving average | 178.053p |
| 200-day moving average | 159.9379p |
| PE ratio | 18.4343 |
| Dividend yield | 0.06p (3.43%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | 9.9p |
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Is it a good time to buy The SimplyBiz Group stock?
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Is The SimplyBiz Group under- or over-valued?
Valuing The SimplyBiz Group stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of The SimplyBiz Group's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
The SimplyBiz Group's P/E ratio
The SimplyBiz Group's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 18x. In other words, The SimplyBiz Group shares trade at around 18x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the FTSE 250 at the end of September 2019 (19.71). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
The SimplyBiz Group's EBITDA
The SimplyBiz Group's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is £15.1 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a The SimplyBiz Group's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
The SimplyBiz Group financials
| Revenue TTM | £62.6 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 20.46% |
| Gross profit TTM | £15.6 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 5.88% |
| Return on equity TTM | 15.08% |
| Profit margin | 15.73% |
| Book value | 0.709p |
| Market capitalisation | £176.7 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
The SimplyBiz Group share dividends
Dividend payout ratio: 2850% of net profits
Recently The SimplyBiz Group has paid out, on average, around 2850% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 3.43% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), The SimplyBiz Group shareholders could enjoy a 3.43% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In The SimplyBiz Group's case, that would currently equate to about 0.06p per share.
The SimplyBiz Group's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 19 March 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").
The SimplyBiz Group share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, The SimplyBiz Group's shares have ranged in value from as little as 128p up to 238.2993p. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (LSE average) beta is 1, while The SimplyBiz Group's is 1.5215. This would suggest that The SimplyBiz Group's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
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The SimplyBiz Group overview
The SimplyBiz Group plc provides regulatory, business support, and software services to professional financial advisers, financial intermediaries, and product providers operating within the retail financial services market in the United Kingdom. It operates in three segments: Intermediary Services, Distribution Channels, and Research & FinTech. The Intermediary Services segment offers compliance and regulation services to individual financial intermediary member firms, including directly authorized IFAs, directly authorized mortgage advisers, workplace consultants, and directly authorized consumer credit brokers, as well as employee benefit and additional support services. The Distribution Channels segment provides marketing and promotion, product paneling, and co-manufacturing services to financial institutions, as well as offers survey paneling and surveying works for mortgage lenders; investment products; and insurance panels and transaction services. The Research & FinTech segment operates a FinTech platform for approximately 9,000 users, across 3,300 firms, and provides independent ratings of 21,000 financial products and funds, licensed by 250 brands; data services for intermediaries and product providers; financial planning and research software; educational content to inform decision making; and market insight and analytics services. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Huddersfield, the United Kingdom.
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