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

Shares of Morgan Advanced Materials plc (LON:MGAM) dropped 16.2% during mid-day trading on Friday . The stock traded as low as GBX 198 ($2.49) and last traded at GBX 214.51 ($2.70). Approximately 8,720,610 shares changed hands during trading, an increase of 451% from the average daily volume of 1,583,410 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 256 ($3.22).

Analysts Set New Price Targets

MGAM has been the topic of a number of research analyst reports. Royal Bank of Canada reduced their target price on Morgan Advanced Materials from GBX 350 ($4.40) to GBX 320 ($4.02) and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, November 7th. Citigroup lifted their target price on Morgan Advanced Materials from GBX 325 ($4.09) to GBX 330 ($4.15) and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, January 23rd.

Morgan Advanced Materials Stock Down 16.2 %

The stock has a market cap of £604.67 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 8.83, a PEG ratio of 0.51 and a beta of 1.34. The company has a quick ratio of 1.26, a current ratio of 2.19 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 103.31. The stock has a fifty day moving average of GBX 265.32 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 270.56.

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