PageGroup (LON:PAGE) Stock Crosses Below Fifty Day Moving Average of $454.63

PageGroup plc (LON:PAGE) passed below its fifty day moving average during trading on Tuesday . The stock has a fifty day moving average of GBX 454.63 ($5.66) and traded as low as GBX 433.40 ($5.40). PageGroup shares last traded at GBX 438 ($5.45), with a volume of 708,678 shares trading hands.

PageGroup Trading Up 0.3 %

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 36.20, a current ratio of 1.64 and a quick ratio of 1.77. The company has a market capitalization of £1.45 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 1,368.75, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.98 and a beta of 1.15. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is GBX 454.63 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 446.27.

PageGroup Cuts Dividend

The company also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, June 21st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 16th will be paid a dividend of GBX 11.24 ($0.14) per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 16th. This represents a dividend yield of 2.46%. PageGroup’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 5,000.00%.

Insider Transactions at PageGroup

In other news, insider Nick Kirk sold 36,019 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, March 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 448 ($5.58), for a total transaction of £161,365.12 ($200,877.78). Company insiders own 4.72% of the company’s stock.

PageGroup Company Profile

PageGroup plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides recruitment consultancy and other ancillary services in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and the Americas. It offers executive search services, such as search, selection, and talent management solutions for organizations on a permanent and interim basis under the Page Executive brand; recruitment services for qualified professional on permanent, temporary, and contract or interim basis under the Michael Page brand; recruitment services to organizations requiring permanent employees and temporary or contract staff at technical and administrative support, professional clerical, and junior management levels under the Page Personnel brand; and flexible recruitment outsourcing services under the Page Outsourcing brand.