Cohort (LON:CHRT) Sets New 1-Year High at $810.00

Cohort plc (LON:CHRT - Get Free Report) hit a new 52-week high during trading on Wednesday . The stock traded as high as GBX 810 ($10.17) and last traded at GBX 802 ($10.07), with a volume of 163718 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at GBX 748 ($9.40).

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, Shore Capital reissued a "buy" rating on shares of Cohort in a report on Thursday, March 28th.

Cohort Stock Up 7.2 %

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 32.14, a current ratio of 1.69 and a quick ratio of 0.93. The company has a market cap of £333.07 million, a PE ratio of 2,430.30 and a beta of 0.53. The company has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 652.56 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 572.41.

Cohort Cuts Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, February 13th. Investors of record on Thursday, January 4th were given a GBX 4.70 ($0.06) dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, January 4th. This represents a yield of 0.88%. Cohort's payout ratio is 4,242.42%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, insider Simon Walther sold 803 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, May 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 749 ($9.41), for a total value of £6,014.47 ($7,554.92). In other Cohort news, insider Simon Walther sold 803 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, May 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 749 ($9.41), for a total value of £6,014.47 ($7,554.92). Also, insider Andrew Stephen Thomis acquired 2,753 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, April 8th. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 727 ($9.13) per share, with a total value of £20,014.31 ($25,140.45). 35.10% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Cohort Company Profile

Cohort plc, through its subsidiaries, provides various products and services in defense, security, and related markets in the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Africa, North and South America, and the Asia Pacific and Africa. The company offers electro-optical and electro-mechanical systems, such as command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance, as well as combat systems; and communications systems.