Gooch & Housego (LON:GHH) Share Price Passes Above 200 Day Moving Average of $555.53

Shares of Gooch & Housego PLC (LON:GHH) crossed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 555.53 ($7.06) and traded as high as GBX 590 ($7.50). Gooch & Housego shares last traded at GBX 590 ($7.50), with a volume of 10,456 shares traded.

Gooch & Housego Price Performance

The company has a market capitalization of £152.16 million, a P/E ratio of 3,687.50 and a beta of 0.94. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 547.57 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 556.21. The company has a current ratio of 3.40, a quick ratio of 1.66 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 32.58.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Gooch & Housego news, insider Gary Bullard acquired 263 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, February 28th. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 494 ($6.28) per share, with a total value of £1,299.22 ($1,651.27). 21.20% of the stock is owned by insiders.

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.