Gooch & Housego PLC (LON:GHH - Get Free Report)'s stock price passed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Monday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 455.01 ($5.89) and traded as high as GBX 462 ($5.98). Gooch & Housego shares last traded at GBX 456 ($5.90), with a volume of 33,250 shares changing hands.
Gooch & Housego Stock Performance
The stock's fifty day moving average price is GBX 446.41 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 455.25. The company has a market cap of £113.95 million, a P/E ratio of 104.16 and a beta of 0.96. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 29.92, a quick ratio of 1.66 and a current ratio of 3.19.
Gooch & Housego Increases Dividend
The firm also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, February 28th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, January 23rd were issued a GBX 8.30 ($0.11) dividend. This represents a dividend yield of 1.81%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, January 23rd. This is an increase from Gooch & Housego's previous dividend of $4.90. Gooch & Housego's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 300.89%.
About Gooch & Housego
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Gooch & Housego PLC engages in the manufacture and sale of acousto-optics, electro-optics, fiber optics, and precision optics and systems in the United Kingdom, North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. It offers acousto-optic products, such as acoustic-optic modulators, deflectors, frequency shifters, mode lockers, pulse pickers, Q-switches, tunable filters, and RF drivers; crystal optics, including crystals and nonlinear optics, lithium niobate wafers, and periodically-poled lithium niobite; and electro-optics, such as pockels cells, lithium niobate Q-switches, and pockels cell drivers.
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