POET Technologies (CVE:PTK) Stock Price Up 12.8% – Time to Buy?

POET Technologies Inc. (CVE:PTK) traded up 12.8% during mid-day trading on Thursday . The company traded as high as C$6.43 and last traded at C$6.24. 81,106 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 46% from the average session volume of 149,759 shares. The stock had previously closed at C$5.53.

POET Technologies Stock Performance

The company has a market cap of C$290.62 million, a P/E ratio of -6.13 and a beta of 0.48. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.20, a current ratio of 2.20 and a quick ratio of 5.08. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of C$6.41 and a two-hundred day moving average price of C$6.20.

Insider Transactions at POET Technologies

In related news, Director James Lee sold 5,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, January 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of C$9.54, for a total value of C$47,682.00. 0.82% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

POET Technologies Company Profile

POET Technologies Inc designs, develops, manufactures, and sells discrete and integrated opto-electronic solutions in Canada, the United States, Singapore, and China. The company offers integration solutions based on the POET Optical Interposer, a novel platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single multi-chip module using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques.