Key Points
- Insider purchase: Director Louise Evans bought 953 shares on Dec. 2 at an average price of GBX 523, a total outlay of £4,984.19, signalling insider buying activity in Gooch & Housego.
- Shares jumped 12.5%: LON:GHH opened at GBX 576 after the transaction, with a market cap of £156.67m, a PE of 31.82 and a 12‑month range of GBX 352–660.37.
- Weak profitability despite recent EPS: The company reported quarterly EPS of GBX 35.40 but has a low return on equity (1.02%) and net margin (0.78%), while analysts forecast about 40.97 EPS for the fiscal year.
Gooch & Housego PLC (LON:GHH - Get Free Report) insider Louise Evans bought 953 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Tuesday, December 2nd. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 523 per share, with a total value of £4,984.19.
Gooch & Housego Stock Up 12.5%
Shares of LON GHH opened at GBX 576 on Wednesday. The firm's 50-day moving average is GBX 548.11 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 558.93. The company has a market capitalization of £156.67 million, a PE ratio of 31.82 and a beta of 0.96. Gooch & Housego PLC has a 12-month low of GBX 352 and a 12-month high of GBX 660.37. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 29.92, a current ratio of 3.19 and a quick ratio of 1.66.
Gooch & Housego (LON:GHH - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, December 2nd. The company reported GBX 35.40 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Gooch & Housego had a return on equity of 1.02% and a net margin of 0.78%. Equities analysts anticipate that Gooch & Housego PLC will post 40.9691418 EPS for the current fiscal year.
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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