Morgan Advanced Materials (LON:MGAM) Stock Price Down 16.2% – What’s Next?

Morgan Advanced Materials plc (LON:MGAM) shares traded down 16.2% during mid-day trading on Saturday . The company traded as low as GBX 198 ($2.49) and last traded at GBX 214.51 ($2.70). 8,720,610 shares changed hands during trading, an increase of 451% from the average session volume of 1,583,410 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 256 ($3.22).

Analyst Ratings Changes

MGAM has been the subject of several recent research reports. Royal Bank of Canada decreased their price objective on Morgan Advanced Materials from GBX 350 ($4.40) to GBX 320 ($4.02) and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, November 7th. Citigroup raised their target price on shares of Morgan Advanced Materials from GBX 325 ($4.09) to GBX 330 ($4.15) and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, January 23rd.

Morgan Advanced Materials Price Performance

The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of GBX 265.32 and a 200-day simple moving average of GBX 270.85. The firm has a market cap of £604.67 million, a P/E ratio of 8.83, a PEG ratio of 0.51 and a beta of 1.34. The company has a current ratio of 2.19, a quick ratio of 1.26 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 103.31.

Morgan Advanced Materials (LON:MGAM) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Friday, February 28th. The company reported GBX 25.50 ($0.32) earnings per share for the quarter. Morgan Advanced Materials had a return on equity of 19.02% and a net margin of 6.17%. As a group, analysts forecast that Morgan Advanced Materials plc will post 32.5 EPS for the current year.

Morgan Advanced Materials Company Profile

Morgan Advanced Materials plc operates as a materials science and application engineering company primarily the United Kingdom. It serves customers in the industrial, transportation, petrochemical and chemical, energy, semiconductor and electronics, healthcare, and security and defense markets. The company was formerly known as The Morgan Crucible Company plc and changed its name to Morgan Advanced Materials plc in March 2013.