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Share Price:
Down 2,116.00p
Change Today:
-14.00p
Market Cap:
£1,835.79m
Sector:
Chemicals

Barclays upgrades Victrex to 'equalweight'

By Michele Maatouk

Date: Thursday 10 Dec 2020

LONDON (ShareCast) - (Sharecast News) - Barclays upgraded Victrex to 'equalweight' from 'underweight' on Thursday, hiking the price target to 1,980p from 1,710p, arguing that Croda is a better 'underweight' idea.
The bank noted that consensus 2021 earnings per share has fallen 40% in two years but said that it believes the downgrade cycle is over and EPS troughed in 2020.

"Yesterday's presentation uncovered a £4mn inventory provision which impacted Industrial gross margins in 2H20," Barclays said. "Taking that into account alongside a smaller de-stock and delay to the debottlenecking means our new 2021 profit before tax estimate is £82mn, broadly in line with consensus and now +5% higher."

Barclays said that trading at 22x Bloomberg consensus 2022 price-to-earnings estimates, the stock is already pricing in a recovery but it's held onto a more than 20x multiple through the downgrades so, without further cuts to consensus, there is little reason to think it will underperform.

At 1330 GMT, the shares were up 1.4% at 2,122p.

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Victrex plc Market Data

Currency UK Pounds
Price 2,116.00p
Change Today -14.00p
52 Week High 2,452.00p
52 Week Low 1,786.00p
Volume 195,497
Shares Issued 86.76m
Market Cap £1,835.79m

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What The Brokers Say

Strong Buy 3
Buy 0
Neutral 10
Sell 0
Strong Sell 4
Total 17
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Victrex plc Dividends

  Latest Previous
  Final Final
Ex-Div 28-Jan-21 30-Jan-20
Paid 19-Feb-21 21-Feb-20
Amount 46.14p 46.14p

Trades for 26-Feb-2021

Time Volume / Share Price
16:35 96,633 @ 2,116.00p
16:29 9 @ 2,122.00p
16:29 8 @ 2,122.00p
16:29 110 @ 2,122.00p
16:29 33 @ 2,120.00p

Victrex plc Key Personnel

Chair Lawrence C Pentz
CEO Jakob Sigurdsson