RWS (LON:RWS) Share Price Passes Below Two Hundred Day Moving Average – Should You Sell?

RWS Holdings plc (LON:RWS)’s stock price passed below its two hundred day moving average during trading on Thursday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 167.10 ($2.06) and traded as low as GBX 154.40 ($1.91). RWS shares last traded at GBX 155.20 ($1.92), with a volume of 601,991 shares trading hands.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of brokerages have weighed in on RWS. Shore Capital reissued a “buy” rating on shares of RWS in a research note on Thursday, December 12th. Berenberg Bank reissued a “buy” rating and set a GBX 330 ($4.08) price target on shares of RWS in a research report on Thursday, December 12th.

RWS Price Performance

The firm has a market capitalization of £572.21 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -1,724.44, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.43 and a beta of 0.76. The company’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 166 and its 200 day moving average price is GBX 167.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 14.66, a quick ratio of 1.43 and a current ratio of 1.54.

RWS (LON:RWS) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, December 12th. The company reported GBX 21.60 ($0.27) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. RWS had a negative return on equity of 3.80% and a negative net margin of 5.22%. Equities research analysts expect that RWS Holdings plc will post 10.6469761 earnings per share for the current year.

RWS Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, February 14th. Investors of record on Thursday, January 16th will be given a GBX 9.80 ($0.12) dividend. This is a positive change from RWS’s previous dividend of $2.40. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, January 16th. This represents a dividend yield of 3.96%. RWS’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is -13,333.33%.

Insider Activity at RWS

In other RWS news, insider Ian El Mokadem bought 5,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, October 31st. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 149 ($1.84) per share, with a total value of £7,450 ($9,202.08). 46.21% of the stock is owned by insiders.

RWS Company Profile

RWS Holdings plc is a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property services. Through content transformation and multilingual data analysis, our unique combination of technology and cultural expertise helps our clients to grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language.
Our purpose is unlocking global understanding.