Cohort (LON:CHRT) Stock Crosses Above 200-Day Moving Average - What's Next?

Shares of Cohort plc (LON:CHRT - Get Free Report) passed above its two hundred day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 990.42 ($12.67) and traded as high as GBX 1,095 ($14.01). Cohort shares last traded at GBX 1,085 ($13.88), with a volume of 68,284 shares.

Cohort Trading Up 0.8 %

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 37.28, a current ratio of 1.55 and a quick ratio of 0.93. The stock's 50-day moving average is GBX 1,120.80 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 995.59. The company has a market cap of £556.03 million, a P/E ratio of 32.35 and a beta of 0.56.

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

Cohort Cuts Dividend

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