Morgan Advanced Materials (LON:MGAM) Stock Price Down 16.2% – Time to Sell?

Morgan Advanced Materials plc (LON:MGAM)’s share price fell 16.2% 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 were traded 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).

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

MGAM has been the topic of a number of analyst reports. Royal Bank of Canada cut their price target on Morgan Advanced Materials from GBX 350 ($4.40) to GBX 320 ($4.02) and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, November 7th. Citigroup lifted their target price on Morgan Advanced Materials from GBX 325 ($4.09) to GBX 330 ($4.15) and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 23rd.

Morgan Advanced Materials Trading Down 16.2 %

The company’s 50 day simple moving average is GBX 265.32 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 270.85. The company has a quick ratio of 1.26, a current ratio of 2.19 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 103.31. The company has a market capitalization of £604.67 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 8.83, a P/E/G ratio of 0.51 and a beta of 1.34.

Morgan Advanced Materials (LON:MGAM) last posted 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, research analysts anticipate that Morgan Advanced Materials plc will post 32.5 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

About Morgan Advanced Materials

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.