Senior (LON:SNR) Stock Price Crosses Above Two Hundred Day Moving Average of $167.34

Senior plc (LON:SNR) shares passed above its two hundred day moving average during trading on Wednesday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 167.34 ($2.10) and traded as high as GBX 170 ($2.14). Senior shares last traded at GBX 168.40 ($2.12), with a volume of 139,053 shares trading hands.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, Barclays reaffirmed an “equal weight” rating and set a GBX 168 ($2.11) target price on shares of Senior in a report on Wednesday, May 1st.

Senior Price Performance

The company has a market cap of £694.92 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 2,414.29, a P/E/G ratio of 0.11 and a beta of 1.39. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 55.00, a current ratio of 1.71 and a quick ratio of 0.84. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of GBX 168.97 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 167.34.

Senior Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, May 31st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 2nd will be issued a dividend of GBX 1.70 ($0.02) per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 2nd. This represents a dividend yield of 1.07%. This is an increase from Senior’s previous dividend of $0.60. Senior’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 2,857.14%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Senior news, insider David Squires sold 266,257 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 173 ($2.17), for a total transaction of £460,624.61 ($578,674.13). 1.34% of the stock is owned by insiders.

About Senior

Senior plc designs, manufactures, and sells high-technology components and systems for the principal original equipment manufacturers in the aerospace, defense, land vehicle, and power and energy markets in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Aerospace and Flexonics.