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| Market Cap | £1.42bn |
| Enterprise Value | £1.67bn |
| Revenue | £263.7m |
| Position in Universe | 372nd / 1827 |
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Ascential plc is a United Kingdom-based specialist information, data and ecommerce optimization company. The Company is engaged in delivering optimization platforms to consumer brands and their ecosystems. Its business units include digital commerce, product design, marketing, and retail & financial services. Digital commerce is focused on measuring, optimizing and executing digital commerce growth. Product design offers consumer product trend forecasting, data and insight. Marketing unite provides services and tools to measure and optimize marketing creativity, media and platform effectiveness and efficiency. Its retail & financial services provide data and tools to improve performance in retail and financial services. The company's brands include flywheel, EDGE, YIMIAN, WGSN, WARC, RetailWeek, LIONS, use fashion, World Retail Congress, Intellibrand and Duozun. The Company serve customers in over 120 countries.
| Last Annual | December 31st, 2020 |
| Last Interim | December 31st, 2020 |
| Incorporated | January 4, 2016 |
| Public Since | February 9, 2016 |
| No. of Shareholders: | n/a |
| No. of Employees: | 1,991 |
| Sector | Industrials |
| Industry | Professional & Commercial Services |
| Index | FTSE All Share , FTSE All-share - Consumer Services Price Return Gbp End Of Day, FTSE All-share - Media Price Return Gbp End Of Day, FTSE 350 , FTSE 350 Lower Yield , FTSE 250 , FTSE 350 Media , , |
| Exchange | London Stock Exchange (Full) |
| Shares in Issue | 402,929,204 |
| Free Float | (0.0%) |
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| Address | The Prow 1 Wilder Walk, LONDON, W1B 5AP, United Kingdom |
| Web | https://www.ascential.com/ |
| Phone | +44 20 75165000 |
| Contact | Rory Elliott (Head of Investor Relations) |
| Auditors | KPMG LLP |
As of 10:22am, shares in Ascential are trading at 345.4p, giving the company a market capitalisation of £1.42bn. This share price information is delayed by 15 minutes.
Shares in Ascential are currently trading at 345.4p and the price has moved by 46.42% over the past 365 days. In terms of relative price strength - which takes into account the overall market trend - the Ascential price has moved by 19.85% over the past year.
Of the analysts with advisory recommendations for Ascential, there are there are currently 3 "buy" , 5 "hold" and 0 "sell" recommendations. The overall consensus recommendation for Ascential is Hold. You can view the full broker recommendation list by unlocking its StockReport.
Ascential is scheduled to issue upcoming financial results on the following dates:
Ascential does not currently pay a dividend.
Ascential does not currently pay a dividend.
Ascential does not currently pay a dividend.
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Shares in Ascential are currently trading at 345.4p, giving the company a market capitalisation of £1.42bn.
Here are the trading details for Ascential:
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Shares in Ascential are currently priced at 345.4p. At that level they are trading at 11.74% discount to the analyst consensus target price of 391.34.
Analysts covering Ascential currently have a consensus Earnings Per Share (EPS) forecast of 0.07889 for the next financial year.
An important predictor of whether a stock price will go up is its track record of momentum. Price trends tend to persist, so it's worth looking at them when it comes to a share like Ascential. Over the past six months, the relative strength of its shares against the market has been -6.81%. At the current price of 345.4p, shares in Ascential are trading at 4.86% against their 200 day moving average. You can read more about the power of momentum in assessing share price movements on Stockopedia.
The Ascential PE ratio based on its reported earnings over the past 12 months is 53.04. The shares are currently trading at 345.4p.
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Ascential's management team is headed by:
Here are the top five shareholders of Ascential based on the size of their shareholding:
