Jersey Oil and Gas (LON:JOG) Shares Up 16.5% – Should You Buy?

Jersey Oil and Gas Plc (LON:JOG) shares were up 16.5% on Wednesday . The company traded as high as GBX 73.95 ($0.91) and last traded at GBX 73.95 ($0.91). Approximately 267,756 shares traded hands during trading, an increase of 78% from the average daily volume of 150,495 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 63.50 ($0.78).

Jersey Oil and Gas Stock Down 1.8 %

The company has a market cap of £22.93 million, a P/E ratio of -438.75 and a beta of 0.96. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.40, a quick ratio of 18.80 and a current ratio of 69.26. The business’s fifty day moving average is GBX 57.94 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 68.62.

Jersey Oil and Gas Company Profile

Jersey Oil & Gas is a UK E&P company focused on building an upstream oil and gas business in the North Sea. The Company holds a significant acreage position within the Central North Sea referred to as the Greater Buchan Area, which includes operatorship and 100% working interests in blocks that contain the Buchan oil field and J2 and Glenn oil discoveries and an 88% working interest in the P2170 Licence, Blocks 20/5b & 21/1d, that contains the Verbier oil discovery.

JOG’s acreage is estimated by management to contain more than 140 million barrels of oil equivalent (“boe”) of discovered mean recoverable resources net to JOG, in addition to significant exploration upside potential.