Gooch & Housego (LON:GHH) Shares Cross Above 200-Day Moving Average – Time to Sell?

Gooch & Housego PLC (LON:GHH) crossed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Tuesday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 454.97 ($5.88) and traded as high as GBX 459.66 ($5.94). Gooch & Housego shares last traded at GBX 439 ($5.68), with a volume of 60,956 shares traded.

Gooch & Housego Trading Down 0.2 %

The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is GBX 444.99 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 454.97. The stock has a market capitalization of £111.16 million, a PE ratio of 101.61 and a beta of 0.96. 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 Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Friday, February 28th. Investors of record on Thursday, January 23rd were paid a GBX 8.30 ($0.11) dividend. This is an increase from Gooch & Housego’s previous dividend of $4.90. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, January 23rd. This represents a yield of 1.81%. Gooch & Housego’s dividend payout ratio is presently 300.89%.

About Gooch & Housego

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.