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Gooch & Housego (GHH) Share Price, News & Analysis

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GBX 468 -8.00 (-1.68%)
As of 01/9/2025 11:47 AM Eastern

About Gooch & Housego Stock (LON:GHH)

Key Stats

Today's Range
465.53
487
50-Day Range
438
542
52-Week Range
380
685.66
Volume
11,942 shs
Average Volume
23,408 shs
Market Capitalization
£117.19 million
P/E Ratio
9,360.00
Dividend Yield
2.78%
Price Target
GBX 635
Consensus Rating
Buy

Company Overview

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. The company also provides fiber optics, such as DFB lasers and modules, fiber-coupled pump lasers, high-speed detectors and power combiners, benchtop laser controllers, polarization-maintaining and single-mode fused fiber couplers, polarization diverse receivers, ruggedized and wideband couplers, planar lightwave circuits, variable optical delay lines, and fiber-coupled modulators; precision optics, including beam splitters, corner cubes, optical domes, optical windows and flats, polymer optics, precision lenses, precision mirrors, precision prisms, ring laser gyroscope components, synchrotron mirrors, waveplates, optical bindings, magnetorheological finishing, optical coatings, single point diamond turning, and super polishing; lens systems; and vision systems for armored fighting vehicles, including embedded image periscope and sighting systems, enhanced drivers vision system, saber commander/gunner sights, spares and repairs, specter camera modules, and unity vision periscopes; and medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics, and laboratory instruments. The company's products are used in semiconductor and microelectronic, metrology, telecommunications, and scientific research industries. Gooch & Housego plc was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Ilminster, the United Kingdom.

Gooch & Housego Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

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56th Percentile Overall Score

GHH MarketRank™: 

Gooch & Housego scored higher than 56% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

  • Consensus Rating

    Gooch & Housego has received a consensus rating of Buy. The company's average rating score is 3.00, and is based on 1 buy rating, no hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

  • Amount of Analyst Coverage

    Gooch & Housego has received no research coverage in the past 90 days.

  • Read more about Gooch & Housego's stock forecast and price target.
  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

    The P/E ratio of Gooch & Housego is 9,360.00, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 111.58.

  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

    The P/E ratio of Gooch & Housego is 9,360.00, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Computer and Technology sector average P/E ratio of about 236.02.

  • Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

    Gooch & Housego has a P/B Ratio of 1.13. P/B Ratios below 3 indicates that a company is reasonably valued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

  • Short Interest

    There is no current short interest data available for GHH.
  • Dividend Yield

    Gooch & Housego pays a meaningful dividend of 3.37%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

  • Dividend Growth

    Gooch & Housego does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

  • Dividend Coverage

    The dividend payout ratio of Gooch & Housego is 26,000.00%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable.

  • Read more about Gooch & Housego's dividend.
  • Short Interest

    There is no current short interest data available for GHH.
  • News Sentiment

    Gooch & Housego has a news sentiment score of 0.79. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This news sentiment score is similar to the average news sentiment of Computer and Technology companies.
  • News Coverage This Week

    MarketBeat has tracked 2 news articles for Gooch & Housego this week, compared to 0 articles on an average week.
  • Search Interest

    1 people have searched for GHH on MarketBeat in the last 30 days.
  • Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

    In the past three months, Gooch & Housego insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

  • Percentage Held by Insiders

    24.11% of the stock of Gooch & Housego is held by insiders. A high percentage of insider ownership can be a sign of company health.

  • Percentage Held by Institutions

    64.09% of the stock of Gooch & Housego is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

  • Read more about Gooch & Housego's insider trading history.
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GHH Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

Gooch & Housego's stock was trading at GBX 518 on January 1st, 2025. Since then, GHH stock has decreased by 9.7% and is now trading at GBX 468.
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Gooch & Housego PLC (LON:GHH) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, June, 4th. The company reported $16.40 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $19.20 by $2.80. Gooch & Housego had a negative net margin of 5.28% and a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 1.16%.

Shares of GHH stock and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock.
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Gooch & Housego investors own include ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Ferrexpo (FXPO), Coats Group (COA), Advanced Medical Solutions Group (AMS), Aviva (AV), B&M European Value Retail (BME) and BP (BP).

Company Calendar

Last Earnings
6/04/2019
Today
1/09/2025
Ex-Dividend for 2/28 Dividend
1/23/2025
Dividend Payable
2/28/2025

Industry, Sector and Symbol

Industry
Electronic Components
Sub-Industry
N/A
CIK
N/A
Fax
N/A
Employees
1,030
Year Founded
N/A

Price Target and Rating

Average Stock Price Target
GBX 635
High Stock Price Target
GBX 635
Low Stock Price Target
GBX 635
Potential Upside/Downside
+35.7%
Consensus Rating
Buy
Rating Score (0-4)
3.00
Research Coverage
1 Analysts

Profitability

Net Income
£1.29 million
Pretax Margin
N/A

Debt

Sales & Book Value

Annual Sales
£147.56 million
Cash Flow
GBX 26.24 per share
Book Value
GBX 415 per share

Miscellaneous

Free Float
N/A
Market Cap
£117.19 million
Optionable
Not Optionable
Beta
0.96
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This page (LON:GHH) was last updated on 1/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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