Henderson Smaller Companies (LON:HSL) Share Price Crosses Below 50 Day Moving Average of $773.10

Henderson Smaller Companies (LON:HSL) shares passed below its fifty day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a fifty day moving average of GBX 773.10 ($9.62) and traded as low as GBX 752 ($9.36). Henderson Smaller Companies shares last traded at GBX 760 ($9.46), with a volume of 59,946 shares changing hands.

Henderson Smaller Companies Stock Performance

The company has a current ratio of 0.33, a quick ratio of 0.20 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 14.79. The firm has a market cap of £567.72 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -938.27 and a beta of 1.26. The stock’s 50 day moving average is GBX 773.10 and its 200 day moving average is GBX 753.42.

Henderson Smaller Companies Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, March 5th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, February 8th were issued a GBX 7.50 ($0.09) dividend. This represents a yield of 0.96%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, February 8th. Henderson Smaller Companies’s dividend payout ratio is currently -3,333.33%.

Insider Buying and Selling at Henderson Smaller Companies

In other Henderson Smaller Companies news, insider Yen Mei Lim acquired 1,276 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, March 14th. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 783 ($9.75) per share, with a total value of £9,991.08 ($12,437.55). Insiders own 4.29% of the company’s stock.

Henderson Smaller Companies Company Profile

The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Henderson Investment Funds Limited. It is co-managed by Henderson Global Investors Limited. The fund invests in the public equity markets of the United Kingdom. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors.