Ocado Group (LON:OCDO) Trading Up 15.6% – Still a Buy?

Ocado Group plc (LON:OCDO)’s stock price shot up 15.6% on Thursday . The stock traded as high as GBX 293.58 ($3.80) and last traded at GBX 288.70 ($3.74). 384,146,594 shares traded hands during trading, an increase of 1,835% from the average session volume of 19,847,646 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 249.80 ($3.23).

Ocado Group Stock Up 1.4 %

The company has a current ratio of 2.35, a quick ratio of 2.82 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 144.16. The stock has a market capitalization of £2.47 billion, a PE ratio of -11.21 and a beta of 1.85. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is GBX 287.88 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 318.84.

Ocado Group (LON:OCDO) last released its quarterly earnings results on Friday, March 7th. The company reported GBX (41) (($0.53)) earnings per share for the quarter. Ocado Group had a negative return on equity of 15.18% and a negative net margin of 7.23%.

Insider Activity

In other Ocado Group news, insider Adam Warby bought 100,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 13th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 225 ($2.91) per share, for a total transaction of £225,000 ($291,224.44). 29.45% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Ocado Group Company Profile

Ocado Group is a UK based technology company that provides end-to-end online grocery fulfilment solutions, known as the Ocado Smart Platform, to some of the world’s largest grocery retailers and holds a 50% share of Ocado Retail Ltd in the UK in a Joint Venture with Marks & Spencer. OSP comprises access to Ocado’s physical infrastructure solutions, running highly efficient warehouse operations for the single pick of products, together with the entire end-to-end proprietary software applications required to operate a world class online grocery business.