Kier Group (LON:KIE) Shares Down 12.9% - Should You Sell?

Kier Group plc (LON:KIE - Get Free Report) fell 12.9% during trading on Tuesday . The stock traded as low as GBX 122 ($1.57) and last traded at GBX 122 ($1.57). 6,290,550 shares were traded during mid-day trading, an increase of 80% from the average session volume of 3,501,025 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 140 ($1.80).

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, Berenberg Bank restated a "buy" rating and set a GBX 210 ($2.70) price target on shares of Kier Group in a report on Thursday, January 23rd.

Kier Group Stock Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 302.83, a quick ratio of 0.69 and a current ratio of 0.88. The firm has a market capitalization of £531.19 million, a P/E ratio of 12.42, a PEG ratio of 0.29 and a beta of 1.14. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of GBX 146.40 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 146.16.

Kier Group (LON:KIE - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, March 11th. The company reported GBX 8.70 ($0.11) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Kier Group had a return on equity of 8.23% and a net margin of 1.09%. As a group, equities analysts forecast that Kier Group plc will post 20.4913295 EPS for the current year.

About Kier Group

Kier Group is a leading infrastructure services, construction and property group based in the UK. Our purpose is to sustainably deliver infrastructure which is vital to the UK with a vision is to be the UK's leading infrastructure services and construction company. We operate through three segments; Infrastructure Services, Construction and Property.

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