RWS (LON:RWS) Share Price Crosses Below 200-Day Moving Average – Should You Sell?

RWS Holdings plc (LON:RWS) passed below its two hundred day moving average during trading on Thursday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 167.10 ($2.09) and traded as low as GBX 154.40 ($1.93). RWS shares last traded at GBX 155.20 ($1.94), with a volume of 601,991 shares trading hands.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

RWS has been the subject of several research analyst reports. Shore Capital reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of RWS in a report on Thursday, December 12th. Berenberg Bank restated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 330 ($4.12) price target on shares of RWS in a research note on Thursday, December 12th.

RWS Stock Down 0.8 %

The company’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 166.48 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 166.76. The firm has a market capitalization of £567.88 million, a P/E ratio of -1,711.40, a P/E/G ratio of 1.43 and a beta of 0.76. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 14.66, a current ratio of 1.54 and a quick ratio of 1.43.

RWS (LON:RWS) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, December 12th. The company reported GBX 21.60 ($0.27) EPS for the quarter. RWS had a negative return on equity of 3.80% and a negative net margin of 5.22%. As a group, research analysts expect that RWS Holdings plc will post 10.6469761 earnings per share for the current year.

RWS Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, February 14th. Investors of record on Thursday, January 16th will be issued a GBX 9.80 ($0.12) dividend. This represents a yield of 3.96%. This is a positive change from RWS’s previous dividend of $2.40. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, January 16th. RWS’s dividend payout ratio is currently -13,333.33%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other RWS news, insider Ian El Mokadem purchased 5,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, October 31st. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 149 ($1.86) per share, for a total transaction of £7,450 ($9,302.04). 46.21% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

About RWS

RWS Holdings plc is a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property services. Through content transformation and multilingual data analysis, our unique combination of technology and cultural expertise helps our clients to grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language.
Our purpose is unlocking global understanding.