HUTCHMED (LON:HCM) Stock Crosses Above Fifty Day Moving Average - Time to Sell?

Key Points

• HUTCHMED passed above its 50-day moving average (50‑day MA GBX 214.52), trading as high as GBX 229 and last at GBX 220 on volume of 82,607 shares, up about 4.1%.
• The stock shows a low valuation with a P/E ratio of 4.32 and market cap of £1.97bn, but also a notably high debt-to-equity ratio of 7.91.
• Company profile: HUTCHMED is a China-focused novel drug discovery firm with three approved oncology medicines (one also marketed in the U.S.) and is listed on Nasdaq, HKEX and the London AIM market.

HUTCHMED (China) Limited (LON:HCM - ) passed above its 50 day moving average during trading on Wednesday . The stock has a 50 day moving average of GBX 214.52 and traded as high as GBX 229. HUTCHMED shares last traded at GBX 220, with a volume of 82,607 shares trading hands.

HUTCHMED Trading Up 4.1%

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 7.91, a current ratio of 4.96 and a quick ratio of 2.97. The company's 50 day moving average is GBX 214.52 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 218.09. The firm has a market cap of £1.97 billion, a P/E ratio of 4.32 and a beta of 0.45.

HUTCHMED Company Profile

We are among the first global-focused novel drug discovery companies in China. Over the past two decades, we have established a fully integrated R&D platform with world-class discovery and development capabilities. Since inception, we have focused on bringing cancer drug candidates from in-house discovery to patients around the world, with our first three oncology medicines now approved marketed in China, the first of which is also marketed in the U.S. We have also developed a profitable commercial platform with deep pan-China market access, which manufactures, markets and distributes our novel oncology products, as well as prescription drugs and consumer health products in China. HUTCHMED is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and the London Stock Exchange's AIM market (Nasdaq/AIM:HCM; HKEX:13).

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