J D Wetherspoon plc (JDW) is a leading restaurants business based in the UK. In the week up to 12 October J D Wetherspoon shares plunged 8.38% to a closing position of 945.5p. However, over the last 12 months, J D Wetherspoon's share price has risen by 6.88% from 923.5p. J D Wetherspoon is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and employs 42,572 staff. All prices are listed in pence sterling.
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Since the stock market crash that started in February 2020, J D Wetherspoon's share price has had significant negative movement.
Its last market close was 948p, which is 37.01% down on its pre-crash value of 1505p and 92.68% up on the lowest point reached during the March 2020 crash when the shares fell as low as 492p.
If you had bought £1,000 worth of J D Wetherspoon shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth £445.35 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth £609.66.
| Open | 911p |
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| High | 992p |
| Low | 911p |
| Close | 987p |
| Previous close | 948p |
| Change | 39p |
| Change % | 4.1139% |
| Volume | 273,205 |
| 52-week range | 786.5p - 1452.975p |
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| 50-day moving average | 1022.0429p |
| 200-day moving average | 1186.1923p |
| Wall St. target price | 1309.5p |
| Dividend yield | 8p (0.83%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | -147.4p |
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Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value.
J D Wetherspoon's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is £92.4 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a J D Wetherspoon's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
To put that into context you can compare it against similar companies.
| Revenue TTM | £772.6 million |
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| Gross profit TTM | £14.3 million |
| Return on assets TTM | -2.95% |
| Return on equity TTM | -60.84% |
| Profit margin | -23.44% |
| Book value | 2.209p |
| Market capitalisation | £1.2 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend yield: 0.83% of stock value
Forward annual dividend yield: 1.38% of stock value
J D Wetherspoon has recently paid out dividends equivalent to 0.83% of its share value annually.
The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 24 October 2019 (the "ex-dividend date").
J D Wetherspoon's dividend yield is perhaps best considered in relation to those of similar companies.
J D Wetherspoon's shares were split on a 5:1 basis on 17 November 1997. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 5 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your J D Wetherspoon shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 80% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for J D Wetherspoon shares which in turn could have impacted J D Wetherspoon's share price.
Over the last 12 months, J D Wetherspoon's shares have ranged in value from as little as 786.5p up to 1452.975p. 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 J D Wetherspoon's is 1.4935. This would suggest that J D Wetherspoon's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
To put J D Wetherspoon's beta into context you can compare it against those of similar companies.
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