Melrose Industries (LON:MRO) Stock Price Down 11.7% – Here’s Why

Shares of Melrose Industries PLC (LON:MROGet Free Report) traded down 11.7% on Friday . The company traded as low as GBX 488.80 ($6.32) and last traded at GBX 491.24 ($6.35). 18,429,754 shares changed hands during trading, an increase of 92% from the average session volume of 9,600,518 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 556.40 ($7.19).

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, JPMorgan Chase & Co. reissued an “overweight” rating and set a GBX 850 ($10.98) price target on shares of Melrose Industries in a research report on Thursday, January 23rd.

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Melrose Industries Trading Down 11.7 %

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 44.03, a quick ratio of 0.45 and a current ratio of 0.86. The stock has a market cap of £6.35 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -166.14, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.48 and a beta of 1.51. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is GBX 596.44 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 531.51.

Melrose Industries (LON:MROGet Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March 6th. The company reported GBX 26.80 ($0.35) earnings per share for the quarter. Melrose Industries had a negative net margin of 1.13% and a negative return on equity of 1.18%. Research analysts expect that Melrose Industries PLC will post 33.9741641 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Transactions at Melrose Industries

In other Melrose Industries news, insider David Lis sold 7,950 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 566 ($7.31), for a total value of £44,997 ($58,143.17). Company insiders own 1.00% of the company’s stock.

Melrose Industries Company Profile

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Melrose Industries PLC, together with its subsidiaries, provides aerospace components and systems to civil and defence markets in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, North America, and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Engines and Structures. The Engines segment offers structural engineered components; parts repair; and commercial and aftermarket contracts to engines original equipment manufacturers.

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