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OSB Group (LON:OSB) Shares Pass Above Fifty Day Moving Average - Time to Sell?

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OSB Group Plc (LON:OSB - Get Free Report)'s stock price passed above its 50 day moving average during trading on Monday . The stock has a 50 day moving average of GBX 447.96 ($6.06) and traded as high as GBX 482.60 ($6.53). OSB Group shares last traded at GBX 480 ($6.50), with a volume of 861,865 shares traded.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, Shore Capital reissued a "buy" rating on shares of OSB Group in a research report on Wednesday, April 30th.

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OSB Group Stock Performance

The company has a market cap of £1.78 billion, a P/E ratio of 4.81 and a beta of 1.41. The stock has a 50-day moving average of GBX 449.92 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 421.01.

OSB Group (LON:OSB - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Friday, March 14th. The company reported GBX 82.20 ($1.11) earnings per share for the quarter. OSB Group had a return on equity of 18.78% and a net margin of 27.26%. Research analysts predict that OSB Group Plc will post 85.1214128 EPS for the current year.

OSB Group Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Thursday, April 10th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, April 3rd were issued a GBX 22.90 ($0.31) dividend. This represents a dividend yield of 4.99%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, April 3rd. OSB Group's payout ratio is 32.89%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, insider Andy Golding sold 251,584 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction on Friday, May 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 484 ($6.55), for a total value of £1,217,666.56 ($1,647,722.00). Also, insider Victoria Hyde sold 1,137 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction on Monday, March 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 455 ($6.16), for a total value of £5,173.35 ($7,000.47). In the last quarter, insiders sold 297,587 shares of company stock valued at $142,571,539. Corporate insiders own 0.85% of the company's stock.

About OSB Group

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OSB Group Plc, through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialist mortgage lending and retail savings company in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands. It provides private rented sector related buy-to-let, commercial and semi-commercial mortgages, residential development finance, secured funding, bridging, and asset finance services.

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