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Ocado Group (LON:OCDO) Shares Down 9.8% - What's Next?

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Key Points

  • Ocado Group shares fell by 9.8%, trading as low as GBX 240.30 ($3.26) before recovering to GBX 270.71 ($3.67), with trading volume nearly doubling the average.
  • Analysts at JPMorgan Chase increased their target price for Ocado from GBX 400 to GBX 437, maintaining an "overweight" rating.
  • Ocado Group, which specializes in online grocery fulfillment solutions, has a market cap of £2.24 billion and a high P/E ratio of 575.99.
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Shares of Ocado Group plc (LON:OCDO - Get Free Report) fell 9.8% during trading on Saturday . The company traded as low as GBX 240.30 ($3.26) and last traded at GBX 270.71 ($3.67). 15,986,102 shares were traded during trading, an increase of 99% from the average session volume of 8,031,512 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 300 ($4.07).

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their price objective on shares of Ocado Group from GBX 400 to GBX 437 and gave the stock an "overweight" rating in a report on Friday, August 1st. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of "Buy" and a consensus price target of GBX 437.

Read Our Latest Report on OCDO

Ocado Group Stock Up 1.4%

The company has a market cap of £1.91 billion, a PE ratio of 491.28 and a beta of 1.85. The company has a quick ratio of 2.82, a current ratio of 2.35 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 144.16. The firm's fifty day simple moving average is GBX 318.28 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 282.02.

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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