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How to buy UDG Healthcare shares
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UDG Healthcare plc (UDG) is a leading medical care facilities business based in the UK. UDG Healthcare is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and employs 9,000 staff. All prices are listed in pence sterling.
How to buy shares in UDG Healthcare
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- Open your account. You'll need your ID, bank details and national insurance number.
- Confirm your payment details. You'll need to fund your account with a bank transfer, debit card or credit card.
- Search the platform for stock code: UDG in this case.
- Research UDG Healthcare shares. The platform should provide the latest information available.
- Buy your UDG Healthcare shares. It's that simple.
What's in this guide?
- Can I buy shares in UDG Healthcare?
- UDG Healthcare shares summary
- Compare share dealing platforms
- Is UDG Healthcare stock a buy or sell?
- Are UDG Healthcare shares over-valued?
- UDG Healthcare's financials
- How volatile are UDG Healthcare shares?
- Does UDG Healthcare pay a dividend?
- Have UDG Healthcare shares ever split?
- Other common questions
UDG Healthcare share price
Use our graph to track the performance of UDG stocks over time.UDG Healthcare shares at a glance
Information last updated 2021-01-23.
| 52-week range | 416.5383p - 816.9918p |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | 782.8677p |
| 200-day moving average | 746.9296p |
| Wall St. target price | 10.26p |
| PE ratio | 21.019 |
| Dividend yield | 0.13p (1.64%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | 36.8p |
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Is it a good time to buy UDG Healthcare stock?
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Is UDG Healthcare under- or over-valued?
Valuing UDG Healthcare stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of UDG Healthcare's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
UDG Healthcare's P/E ratio
UDG Healthcare's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 21x. In other words, UDG Healthcare shares trade at around 21x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the FTSE 250 at the end of September 2019 (19.71). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
UDG Healthcare's PEG ratio
UDG Healthcare's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 3.21. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into UDG Healthcare's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
UDG Healthcare's EBITDA
UDG Healthcare's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is £185.9 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a UDG Healthcare's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
UDG Healthcare financials
| Revenue TTM | £1.3 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 10.22% |
| Gross profit TTM | £398.2 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 4.92% |
| Return on equity TTM | 9.85% |
| Profit margin | 7.26% |
| Book value | 3.916p |
| Market capitalisation | £1.9 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
UDG Healthcare share dividends
Dividend payout ratio: 45.59% of net profits
Recently UDG Healthcare has paid out, on average, around 45.59% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.64% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), UDG Healthcare shareholders could enjoy a 1.64% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In UDG Healthcare's case, that would currently equate to about 0.13p per share.
While UDG Healthcare's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that UDG Healthcare may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 7 January 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").
Have UDG Healthcare's shares ever split?
UDG Healthcare's shares were split on a 32:5 basis on 21 July 2003. So if you had owned 5 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 32 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your UDG Healthcare shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 84.4% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for UDG Healthcare shares which in turn could have impacted UDG Healthcare's share price.
UDG Healthcare share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, UDG Healthcare's shares have ranged in value from as little as 416.5383p up to 816.9918p. 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 UDG Healthcare's is 0.6282. This would suggest that UDG Healthcare's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
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UDG Healthcare overview
UDG Healthcare plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides advisory, communication, commercial, clinical, and packaging services in the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, North America, and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Ashfield and Sharp. The Ashfield segment offers commercialization services for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry in the areas of advisory, communications, and commercial and clinical services. This segment supports healthcare professionals and patients at various stages of the product life cycle; and provides field and contact center sales teams, healthcare communications, patient support, audit, advisory, medical information, and event management services to approximately 300 healthcare companies. The Sharp segment provides contract and clinical trial packaging services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries; serialization solutions; and clinical IRT services. The company was formerly known as United Drug plc and changed its name to UDG Healthcare plc in August 2013. UDG Healthcare plc was founded in 1948 and is heaquartered in Dublin, the Republic of Ireland.
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