Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (OTCMKTS:MRAAY) Short Interest Up 1,520.7% in April

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (OTCMKTS:MRAAY) was the recipient of a significant growth in short interest in April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totalling 47,000 shares, a growth of 1,520.7% from the March 31st total of 2,900 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 624,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.1 days.

Murata Manufacturing Trading Up 0.1 %

Murata Manufacturing stock traded up $0.01 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $9.04. 358,971 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 271,666. The company has a market cap of $36.66 billion, a P/E ratio of 22.05 and a beta of 0.88. Murata Manufacturing has a twelve month low of $8.08 and a twelve month high of $10.76. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $9.45 and a two-hundred day moving average of $9.63.

Murata Manufacturing (OTCMKTS:MRAAY) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Friday, February 2nd. The company reported $0.09 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Murata Manufacturing had a net margin of 13.53% and a return on equity of 8.80%. The firm had revenue of $2.98 billion for the quarter. On average, analysts expect that Murata Manufacturing will post 0.4 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

About Murata Manufacturing

Murata Manufacturing Co, Ltd. designs, manufactures, and sells ceramic-based passive electronic components and solutions in Japan and internationally. It operates through Components, Devices and Modules, and Others segments. The company offers capacitors, inductors, noise suppression products/EMI suppression filters/ESD protection devices, resistors, thermistors, sensors, timing devices, quartz devices, sound components, power products, batteries, micro mechatronics, RFID product, baluns, couplers, filters, phase shifters, RF switches, front-end modules, SAW components, connectors, antennas, connectivity modules, wireless connectivity platforms, ionizers/active oxygen modules, and transformers.