Card Factory plc (LON:CARD - Get Free Report) crossed below its 200-day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 103.38 ($1.30) and traded as low as GBX 102.07 ($1.29). Card Factory shares last traded at GBX 103 ($1.30), with a volume of 613,196 shares changing hands.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
Separately, Canaccord Genuity Group restated a "buy" rating and issued a GBX 185 ($2.33) target price on shares of Card Factory in a research note on Tuesday, September 24th.
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Card Factory Trading Down 0.2 %
The company's fifty day moving average price is GBX 89.85 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 103.38. The company has a quick ratio of 0.20, a current ratio of 1.10 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 65.23. The company has a market cap of £358.06 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 858.33, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.84 and a beta of 2.06.
Card Factory Cuts Dividend
The firm also recently declared a dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, December 11th. Investors of record on Thursday, October 31st were issued a dividend of GBX 1.20 ($0.02) per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, October 31st. This represents a yield of 0.84%. Card Factory's dividend payout ratio is 5,000.00%.
Insider Buying and Selling at Card Factory
In related news, insider Matthias Seeger bought 21,244 shares of Card Factory stock in a transaction dated Thursday, December 5th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 94 ($1.19) per share, for a total transaction of £19,969.36 ($25,204.29). Also, insider Pamela Powell purchased 4,766 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, October 1st. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 104 ($1.31) per share, for a total transaction of £4,956.64 ($6,256.01). Corporate insiders own 14.41% of the company's stock.
About Card Factory
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Card Factory plc operates as a specialist retailer of cards, gifts, and celebration essentials in the United Kingdom and internationally. It operates through five segments: Cardfactory Stores, Cardfactory Online, Getting Personal, Partnerships, and Printcraft. The company provides greeting cards, celebration accessories, and gifts through cardfactory stores, cardfactory online retails, and network of third-party retail partners; and personalised cards and gifts through online retailer, as well as manufactures and sells greeting cards and personalised gifts through its stores and online businesses.
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