Velocity Composites (LON:VEL) Stock Price Up 9.7% – Time to Buy?

Shares of Velocity Composites plc (LON:VEL) traded up 9.7% during mid-day trading on Friday . The stock traded as high as GBX 16 and last traded at GBX 15.36. Approximately 259,493 shares traded hands during trading, an increase of 302% from the average session volume of 64,609 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 14.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, Canaccord Genuity Group reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 40 price objective on shares of Velocity Composites in a report on Wednesday, June 24th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, According to data from MarketBeat.com, Velocity Composites has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of GBX 40.

Velocity Composites Price Performance

The firm has a fifty day moving average of GBX 14.14 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 14.53. The company has a current ratio of 1.31, a quick ratio of 2.66 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 41.08. The company has a market capitalization of £8.40 million, a PE ratio of -5.43 and a beta of 1.16.

Velocity Composites (LON:VEL) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, June 24th. The company reported GBX (1.89) EPS for the quarter. Velocity Composites had a negative return on equity of 32.89% and a negative net margin of 8.25%.The company had revenue of GBX 844 million during the quarter. Research analysts anticipate that Velocity Composites plc will post 0.7403055 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Velocity Composites Company Profile

Velocity Composites plc, together with its subsidiaries, offers engineered composite material kits to the aerospace industry in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, and internationally. It provides structural material kits, such as ply generation, shape management and configuration control, life management, and cutting and supply service, as well as materials comprising woven fabrics, unidirectional fabrics, impregnated metallic meshes, and film adhesives. The company also offers engineered vacuum bag material kits; and honeycomb, core potting compounds, and co-bonded materials, including hole potting compound kits, cut shape metallic foils and meshes for lightning strike protection/EMI shielding, honeycomb and foam core products, and kitted co-bonded films.