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Ocado Group (LON:OCDO) Shares Down 9.8% - Here's What Happened

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Key Points

  • Ocado Group's stock price dropped 9.8%, trading as low as GBX 240.30 ($3.26) before closing at GBX 270.71 ($3.67).
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price target for Ocado from GBX 400 to GBX 437, maintaining an "overweight" rating.
  • The company has a market capitalization of £2.24 billion and a P/E ratio of 575.99, indicating a significantly high valuation.
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Ocado Group plc (LON:OCDO - Get Free Report)'s stock price was down 9.8% during trading on Saturday . The stock traded as low as GBX 240.30 ($3.26) and last traded at GBX 270.71 ($3.67). Approximately 15,986,102 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 99% from the average daily volume of 8,031,512 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 300 ($4.07).

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price objective on Ocado Group from GBX 400 to GBX 437 and gave the stock an "overweight" rating in a research note on Friday, August 1st. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, According to data from MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of "Buy" and an average price target of GBX 437.

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Ocado Group Price Performance

The firm's fifty day simple moving average is GBX 318.95 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 283.11. The firm has a market cap of £2.24 billion, a P/E ratio of 575.99 and a beta of 1.85. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 144.16, a quick ratio of 2.82 and a current ratio of 2.35.

About Ocado Group

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Ocado Group is a UK based technology company that provides end-to-end online grocery fulfilment solutions, known as the Ocado Smart Platform, to some of the world's largest grocery retailers and holds a 50% share of Ocado Retail Ltd in the UK in a Joint Venture with Marks & Spencer. OSP comprises access to Ocado's physical infrastructure solutions, running highly efficient warehouse operations for the single pick of products, together with the entire end-to-end proprietary software applications required to operate a world class online grocery business.

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