GlobalData (LON:DATA) Hits New 12-Month Low – Time to Sell?

GlobalData Plc (LON:DATAGet Free Report) shares reached a new 52-week low during mid-day trading on Monday . The stock traded as low as GBX 128 ($1.65) and last traded at GBX 128 ($1.65), with a volume of 1018269 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 135 ($1.74).

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, Berenberg Bank upped their price target on shares of GlobalData from GBX 295 ($3.80) to GBX 300 ($3.87) and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, January 14th.

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GlobalData Trading Down 2.8 %

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.16, a quick ratio of 0.61 and a current ratio of 1.25. The firm has a market capitalization of £1.06 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 31.35, a P/E/G ratio of 1.52 and a beta of 0.58. The business has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 174.32 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 188.53.

GlobalData (LON:DATAGet Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, March 10th. The company reported GBX 7.50 ($0.10) EPS for the quarter. GlobalData had a return on equity of 12.99% and a net margin of 11.96%. As a group, equities analysts forecast that GlobalData Plc will post 9.6687774 earnings per share for the current year.

GlobalData Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, May 2nd. Shareholders of record on Thursday, March 20th will be paid a dividend of GBX 1 ($0.01) per share. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 20th. This represents a yield of 0.65%. GlobalData’s dividend payout ratio is currently 119.48%.

Insider Activity

In other news, insider Michael Danson sold 2,000,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, February 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 195 ($2.51), for a total value of £3,900,000 ($5,027,068.83). Insiders own 66.45% of the company’s stock.

About GlobalData

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GlobalData Plc is a leading data, insights, and analytics platform for the world’s largest industries. Our mission is to help our clients decode the future, make better decisions, and reach more customers.

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GlobalData’s One Platform model is the foundation of our business and is the result of years of continuous investment, targeted acquisitions, and organic development.

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