St James's Place Share Price (STJ)

The shares received a big bounce on the announcement of the cost measures so some of this will be priced in. There is the scope for further growth (analysis are pricing around 15% more) but you'd think this would come when results start to show the impacts.

Possible downside here is that the buyback program looks to be complete.

I'm new in here. Restructuring coming with probable redundancies and large cost savings. I can see a decent rise here once the strategic review is announced.

Barclays raises Target Price on STJ on 4th Sept from 800 to 840 per share.

It's probably a bit late now to label these as cheap. But I'm sitting on c50% gain so my views on relative cheapness are rather skewed by experience - and I'm conscious that there will be longer term holders who see this differently.

I'd probably still see this as a stock to buy (I'm overweight in financials so happy to hold) and medium to long term prospects look solid. But not obviously cheaper than other stocks in the sector so people can select across a range of options, all of which look to be decent value and no obvious stand-out options.

That said, the stock has momentum and appears to continuing rising even when the rest of the market falls.

Get em while they're cheap!