Sylvania Platinum (LON:SLP) Share Price Passes Below 200-Day Moving Average – What’s Next?

Sylvania Platinum Limited (LON:SLP) shares passed below its two hundred day moving average during trading on Wednesday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 98.46 and traded as low as GBX 95. Sylvania Platinum shares last traded at GBX 97.80, with a volume of 2,739,972 shares trading hands.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, Berenberg Bank lifted their target price on shares of Sylvania Platinum from GBX 127 to GBX 130 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 27th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, According to MarketBeat, Sylvania Platinum currently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of GBX 130.

Sylvania Platinum Stock Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.36, a quick ratio of 15.92 and a current ratio of 5.30. The company has a market capitalization of £254.25 million, a P/E ratio of 7.04, a P/E/G ratio of 0.05 and a beta of 1.77. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is GBX 104.74 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 98.46.

Sylvania Platinum announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share repurchase plan on Monday, March 23rd that authorizes the company to repurchase $0.00 in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company’s board believes its stock is undervalued.

Insider Buying and Selling at Sylvania Platinum

In other Sylvania Platinum news, insider Johannes Jacobus Prinsloo sold 205,750 shares of Sylvania Platinum stock in a transaction on Friday, February 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 126, for a total value of £259,245. Also, insider Eileen Carr purchased 25,000 shares of Sylvania Platinum stock in a transaction on Monday, March 23rd. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 81 per share, for a total transaction of £20,250. 4.80% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Sylvania Platinum Company Profile

Sylvania Platinum is a rapidly expanding low-cost PGMs producer listed on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM: SLP).

Sylvania is a mid-tier, lower unit cost Platinum Group Metal (PGM)minerals reprocessing and development Company. Our operational arm, Sylvania Dump Operations (SDO), has six chrome beneficiation and PGM processing plants in the Eastern and Western limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC).

A pioneer in chrome tailings reprocessing, Sylvania treats a combination of current and historical chrome tailings at our host mine sites.