Morgan Advanced Materials (LON:MGAM) Trading Down 16.2% – Here’s Why

Morgan Advanced Materials plc (LON:MGAM)’s stock 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 mid-day 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).

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of research firms have recently weighed in on MGAM. Royal Bank of Canada reduced their target price on shares of Morgan Advanced Materials from GBX 350 ($4.40) to GBX 320 ($4.02) and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, November 7th. Citigroup increased their price objective on shares of Morgan Advanced Materials from GBX 325 ($4.09) to GBX 330 ($4.15) and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, January 23rd.

Morgan Advanced Materials Stock Down 16.2 %

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 103.31, a quick ratio of 1.26 and a current ratio of 2.19. The company has a market capitalization of £604.67 million, a PE ratio of 8.83, a P/E/G ratio of 0.51 and a beta of 1.34. The company’s 50-day moving average is GBX 265.32 and its 200 day moving average is GBX 270.85.

Morgan Advanced Materials (LON:MGAM) last posted its earnings results on Friday, February 28th. The company reported GBX 25.50 ($0.32) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Morgan Advanced Materials had a net margin of 6.17% and a return on equity of 19.02%. As a group, analysts anticipate that Morgan Advanced Materials plc will post 32.5 EPS for the current 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.