Bouygues SA (OTCMKTS:BOUYF) Short Interest Down 20.4% in February

Bouygues SA (OTCMKTS:BOUYF) was the target of a significant decrease in short interest in the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totalling 166,500 shares, a decrease of 20.4% from the February 13th total of 209,200 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 100 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1,665.0 days. Currently, 0.0% of the shares of the stock are sold short.

Bouygues Trading Down 0.6 %

OTCMKTS BOUYF opened at $38.40 on Tuesday. The stock has a market capitalization of $72.77 billion, a P/E ratio of 12.51 and a beta of 0.67. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.76, a current ratio of 0.94 and a quick ratio of 0.85. Bouygues has a 12 month low of $28.54 and a 12 month high of $40.00. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $32.79 and its two-hundred day moving average is $32.82.

Bouygues (OTCMKTS:BOUYF) last released its earnings results on Thursday, March 6th. The company reported $1.05 EPS for the quarter. The firm had revenue of $16.28 billion during the quarter. Bouygues had a return on equity of 7.65% and a net margin of 1.88%.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, Morgan Stanley reissued an “underweight” rating on shares of Bouygues in a research note on Wednesday, March 5th.

Bouygues Company Profile

Bouygues SA, together with its subsidiaries, operates in the construction, energy, telecom, media, and transport infrastructure sectors in France and internationally. The company designs, builds, renovates, operates, and deconstructs building, infrastructure, and industrial projects; develops urban planning, residential, and commercial projects; builds and maintains roads and motorways, airport runways, ports, industrial logistics hubs, external works and amenities, reserved-lane public transport, recreational facilities, and environmental projects, as well as undertakes civil engineering, road safety, and signaling activities; produces, distributes, sells, and recycles aggregates, emulsions, asphalt mixes, ready-mix concrete, and bitumen; construction, renewal, and maintenance of rail networks; and installation and maintenance of pipes and pipelines.