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

Gooch & Housego PLC (LON:GHH) passed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Tuesday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 608.18 and traded as high as GBX 770. Gooch & Housego shares last traded at GBX 763.94, with a volume of 57,643 shares.

Gooch & Housego Stock Up 1.4%

The company has a market cap of £211.03 million, a P/E ratio of 57.97 and a beta of 0.74. The company has a 50 day moving average of GBX 709.99 and a 200-day moving average of GBX 610.37. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 43.47, a current ratio of 2.74 and a quick ratio of 1.66.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, insider Charlie Peppiatt sold 41,617 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, January 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 614, for a total transaction of £255,528.38. 1.31% of the stock is owned by insiders.

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.