Cohort (LON:CHRT) Sets New 12-Month High - Should You Buy?

Cohort plc (LON:CHRT - Get Free Report)'s stock price reached a new 52-week high during mid-day trading on Wednesday . The stock traded as high as GBX 1,250 ($16.16) and last traded at GBX 1,247.45 ($16.13), with a volume of 32289 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 1,215 ($15.71).

Cohort Trading Down 0.8 %

The business has a 50 day moving average of GBX 1,126.80 and a 200 day moving average of GBX 1,003.73. The firm has a market capitalization of £546.95 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 31.83 and a beta of 0.56. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 37.28, a current ratio of 1.55 and a quick ratio of 0.93.

Cohort (LON:CHRT - Get Free Report) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, December 11th. The company reported GBX 20 ($0.26) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Cohort had a return on equity of 14.91% and a net margin of 7.56%. As a group, research analysts predict that Cohort plc will post 42.7951807 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Cohort Cuts Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, February 18th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, January 9th were paid a GBX 5.25 ($0.07) dividend. This represents a yield of 0.51%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, January 9th. Cohort's payout ratio is presently 39.62%.

Cohort Company Profile

Cohort plc (www.cohortplc.com) is the parent company of six innovative, agile and responsive businesses based in the UK, Germany and Portugal, providing a wide range of services and products for domestic and export customers in defence and related markets. Chess Technologies, through its operating businesses Chess Dynamics and Vision4ce, offers surveillance, tracking and fire-control systems to the defence and security markets.