NCC Group (LON:NCC) Stock Price Up 0.1% – Still a Buy?

Shares of NCC Group plc (LON:NCC) traded up 0.1% during trading on Monday . The company traded as high as GBX 166.40 ($2.12) and last traded at GBX 162.40 ($2.07). 464,444 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 43% from the average session volume of 821,326 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 162.20 ($2.07).

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, Shore Capital reissued a “buy” rating on shares of NCC Group in a report on Tuesday.

NCC Group Trading Down 2.5 %

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 37.15, a current ratio of 0.75 and a quick ratio of 0.97. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 159.81 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 155.62. The stock has a market capitalization of £421.20 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -1,677.50 and a beta of 0.77.

NCC Group Cuts Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, April 4th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, February 20th will be paid a GBX 1.50 ($0.02) dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 20th. This represents a dividend yield of 0.92%. NCC Group’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently -6,250.00%.

Insider Activity at NCC Group

In other NCC Group news, insider Guy Ellis sold 10,248 shares of NCC Group stock in a transaction on Friday, October 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 166 ($2.12), for a total transaction of £17,011.68 ($21,701.34). Also, insider Mike Maddison sold 104,707 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, September 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 168 ($2.14), for a total value of £175,907.76 ($224,400.77). 5.57% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

About NCC Group

NCC Group plc engages in the cyber and software resilience business in the United Kingdom, the Asian-Pacific, North America, and Europe. The company operates in two segments, Cyber Security and Software Resilience. It offers assessment and advisory services, which include risk management, supply chain risk, cloud and infrastructure, application and security software, mobile, managed vulnerability scanning, hardware and embedded systems, and cryptography, as well as calibrator and cyber security review solutions.