Gooch & Housego PLC (LON:GHH - Get Free Report) shares passed below its two hundred day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 558.94 ($7.09) and traded as low as GBX 461 ($5.85). Gooch & Housego shares last traded at GBX 476 ($6.04), with a volume of 20,198 shares traded.
Gooch & Housego Stock Performance
The company has a market cap of £122.76 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 2,975.00 and a beta of 0.94. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of GBX 547.07 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 558.82. The company has a quick ratio of 1.66, a current ratio of 3.40 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 32.58.
Gooch & Housego Cuts Dividend
The company also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, July 26th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 20th will be given a dividend of GBX 4.90 ($0.06) per share. This represents a yield of 0.85%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 20th. Gooch & Housego's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 8,125.00%.
Insider Activity
In related news, insider Gary Bullard bought 3,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 4th. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 550 ($6.98) per share, with a total value of £16,500 ($20,931.12). Corporate insiders own 21.20% of the company's stock.
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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