Senior (LON:SNR) Hits New 52-Week Low – What’s Next?

Senior plc (LON:SNR)’s share price hit a new 52-week low during mid-day trading on Monday . The company traded as low as GBX 113 ($1.44) and last traded at GBX 120.40 ($1.53), with a volume of 1252940 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at GBX 127 ($1.62).

Senior Stock Performance

The firm has a market cap of £504.39 million, a P/E ratio of 16.39, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.11 and a beta of 1.47. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is GBX 160.13 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 152.95. The company has a current ratio of 1.56, a quick ratio of 0.84 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 59.35.

Senior (LON:SNR) last posted its earnings results on Monday, March 3rd. The company reported GBX 7.17 ($0.09) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Senior had a return on equity of 6.67% and a net margin of 3.09%. As a group, sell-side analysts expect that Senior plc will post 5.8304196 earnings per share for the current year.

Senior Increases Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, May 30th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 1st will be issued a GBX 1.65 ($0.02) dividend. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 1st. This is a positive change from Senior’s previous dividend of $0.75. This represents a yield of 1.01%. Senior’s dividend payout ratio is 27.22%.

About Senior

Senior is an international, market-leading, engineering solutions provider with 30 operating businesses in 13 countries*.

Senior designs, manufactures and markets high-technology components and systems for the principal original equipment producers in the worldwide aerospace, defence, land vehicle and power & energy markets.

The Group aims to create long-term sustainable growth in shareholder value through a culture of empowerment of autonomous and collaborative operations working within an effective control framework.