YouGov (LON:YOU) Stock Price Crosses Below Two Hundred Day Moving Average – Should You Sell?

YouGov plc (LON:YOU)’s share price crossed below its two hundred day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 574.43 ($7.24) and traded as low as GBX 450 ($5.67). YouGov shares last traded at GBX 450 ($5.67), with a volume of 268,050 shares.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Separately, Berenberg Bank cut their price objective on shares of YouGov from GBX 1,200 ($15.12) to GBX 810 ($10.21) and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, August 6th.

YouGov Price Performance

The company has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 445 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 574.43. The stock has a market capitalization of £525.47 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 2,250.00, a PEG ratio of 0.71 and a beta of 1.06. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 122.70, a quick ratio of 0.99 and a current ratio of 0.77.

YouGov Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Monday, December 9th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 28th will be paid a GBX 9 ($0.11) dividend. This represents a yield of 2.26%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 28th. This is an increase from YouGov’s previous dividend of $8.75. YouGov’s payout ratio is 4,500.00%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other YouGov news, insider Alex McIntosh sold 97,803 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, August 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 525 ($6.62), for a total transaction of £513,465.75 ($647,089.79). Corporate insiders own 10.14% of the company’s stock.

YouGov Company Profile

YouGov plc provides online market research services in the United Kingdom, the United States, the Middle East, Mainland Europe, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through three divisions: Data Products, Data Services, and Custom Research. The Data Products division offers syndicated data products, which are available to clients on a subscription basis.