Gooch & Housego PLC (GHH) To Go Ex-Dividend on January 23rd

Gooch & Housego PLC (LON:GHH) declared a dividend on Tuesday, December 3rd,Upcoming Dividends.Co.Uk reports. Stockholders of record on Thursday, January 23rd will be given a dividend of GBX 8.30 ($0.11) per share on Friday, February 28th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.81%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, January 23rd. This is a positive change from Gooch & Housego’s previous dividend of $4.90. The official announcement can be accessed at this link.

Gooch & Housego Stock Performance

GHH stock opened at GBX 465 ($5.91) on Thursday. The company has a market cap of £116.44 million, a P/E ratio of 9,560.00 and a beta of 0.96. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 32.88, a current ratio of 3.66 and a quick ratio of 1.66. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 438.57 and its 200-day moving average price is GBX 471.20. Gooch & Housego has a 1 year low of GBX 380 ($4.83) and a 1 year high of GBX 685.66 ($8.71).

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft lowered their price objective on Gooch & Housego from GBX 675 ($8.58) to GBX 635 ($8.07) and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, August 30th.

Insider Activity

In related news, insider Gary Bullard acquired 5,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, September 26th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 422 ($5.36) per share, with a total value of £21,100 ($26,810.67). Company insiders own 24.11% of the company’s stock.

Gooch & Housego Company Profile

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.