Card Factory (LON:CARD) Stock Price Down 27.4% – Should You Sell?

Shares of Card Factory plc (LON:CARD) traded down 27.4% during mid-day trading on Friday . The company traded as low as GBX 69.80 and last traded at GBX 70. 58,370,387 shares traded hands during trading, an increase of 3,601% from the average session volume of 1,577,172 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 96.40.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have commented on CARD. Peel Hunt reiterated a “hold” rating and issued a GBX 110 price objective on shares of Card Factory in a research report on Tuesday, September 30th. Canaccord Genuity Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 185 target price on shares of Card Factory in a research report on Thursday, October 2nd. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and one has issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of GBX 148.33.

Card Factory Stock Performance

The company has a current ratio of 1.10, a quick ratio of 0.20 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 39.13. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 98.22 and a 200-day moving average price of GBX 98.23. The firm has a market capitalization of £244.43 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 5.69, a PEG ratio of 0.84 and a beta of 2.06.

Card Factory (LON:CARD) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, September 30th. The company reported GBX 2.80 earnings per share for the quarter. Card Factory had a net margin of 7.79% and a return on equity of 13.00%. As a group, analysts anticipate that Card Factory plc will post 15.8347676 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

About Card Factory

Card Factory plc operates as a specialist retailer of cards, gifts, and celebration essentials in the United Kingdom and internationally. It operates through five segments: Cardfactory Stores, Cardfactory Online, Getting Personal, Partnerships, and Printcraft. The company provides greeting cards, celebration accessories, and gifts through cardfactory stores, cardfactory online retails, and network of third-party retail partners; and personalised cards and gifts through online retailer, as well as manufactures and sells greeting cards and personalised gifts through its stores and online businesses.