What does the future hold for the Standard Life Private Equity Trust share price?

The Standard Life Private Equity Trust (LON:SLPE) share price has risen by 7.89% over the past month and it’s currently trading at 294.9834. For investors considering whether to buy, hold or sell the stock, the question now is whether this price run will continue.

According to the company’s analysts, there are certainly reasons to think it will continue to perform well in the year ahead. In terms of trading recommendations, Standard Life Private Equity Trust currently has:

• 1 Buy recommendations

• 0 Hold recommendations

• 0 Sell recommendations

This suggests that analysts are generally positive about the outlook.

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What else can I look at?

At its current price of 294.9834, shares in Standard Life Private Equity Trust are trading at a discount of -26.9% to its 52 week high price. The 1-year performance of the shares has been -10.9%.

While analyst forecasts can be a useful guide to what City 'experts' think about a stock's near term future, they can be unreliable. To get a better idea about the strengths and weaknesses of Standard Life Private Equity Trust it's worth doing some investigation yourself.

There are all sorts of factors that could affect Standard Life Private Equity Trust's share price this year – we simplify them into easy to understand scores with our Stockopedia StockReport. Click here to take a look at the StockReport for Standard Life Private Equity Trust – you might discover some surprising things you didn’t know.