Nicola Wakefield Evans Acquires 2,000 Shares of Sonic Healthcare Limited (ASX:SHL) Stock

Sonic Healthcare Limited (ASX:SHL) insider Nicola Wakefield Evans acquired 2,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 25th. The shares were bought at an average cost of A$25.60 ($16.10) per share, with a total value of A$51,200.00 ($32,201.26).

Sonic Healthcare Price Performance

The stock has a market capitalization of $13.84 billion, a P/E ratio of 26.85, a P/E/G ratio of -1.19 and a beta of 0.51. The company has a current ratio of 1.01, a quick ratio of 0.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 57.03.

Sonic Healthcare Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a Interim dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, March 19th. Investors of record on Wednesday, March 19th were issued a $0.44 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, March 4th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.61%. This is a positive change from Sonic Healthcare’s previous Interim dividend of $0.43. Sonic Healthcare’s payout ratio is presently 99.07%.

Sonic Healthcare Company Profile

Sonic Healthcare Limited offers medical diagnostic services to medical practitioners, hospitals, community health services, and their collective patients. The company provides laboratory medicine/pathology testing services, such as biochemistry, cytopathology, genetics, haematology, histopathology, immunoserology, microbiology, molecular pathology, prenatal testing, toxicology, and ancillary functions; and radiology services, including magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, X-ray, mammography, nuclear medicine, PET CT, interventional procedures, and bone mineral densitometry.