Gary Bullard Acquires 2,000 Shares of Gooch & Housego PLC (LON:GHH) Stock

Gooch & Housego PLC (LON:GHH) insider Gary Bullard acquired 2,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, August 15th. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 456 ($5.82) per share, for a total transaction of £9,120 ($11,644.54).

Gary Bullard also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Tuesday, June 4th, Gary Bullard purchased 3,000 shares of Gooch & Housego stock. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 550 ($7.02) per share, for a total transaction of £16,500 ($21,067.42).

Gooch & Housego Stock Performance

Shares of LON GHH traded down GBX 16 ($0.20) during trading hours on Thursday, hitting GBX 460 ($5.87). 533,216 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 73,336. The firm has a market capitalization of £115.18 million, a P/E ratio of 9,000.00 and a beta of 1.03. The company’s 50 day moving average is GBX 488.30 and its 200 day moving average is GBX 530.16. Gooch & Housego PLC has a one year low of GBX 434.15 ($5.54) and a one year high of GBX 685.66 ($8.75). The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 32.88, a current ratio of 3.66 and a quick ratio of 1.66.

Gooch & Housego Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, July 26th. Investors of record on Thursday, June 20th were paid a dividend of GBX 4.90 ($0.06) per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, June 20th. This represents a yield of 0.85%. Gooch & Housego’s payout ratio is 26,000.00%.

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.