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Gooch & Housego (GHH) Share Price, News & Analysis

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GBX 1,217.50 -2.50 (-0.20%)
As of 08/14/2026 12:20 PM Eastern

About Gooch & Housego Stock (LON:GHH)

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Key Stats

Today's Range
1,210
1,225
50-Day Range
810
1,225
52-Week Range
463.10
1,270
Volume
36,177 shs
Average Volume
141,601 shs
Market Capitalization
£333.24 million
P/E Ratio
85.14
Dividend Yield
1.09%
Price Target
GBX 1,150
Consensus Rating
Buy

Company Overview

Gooch & Housego PLC engages in the manufacture and sale of acousto-optics, electro-optics, fiber optics, and precision optics and systems in the United Kingdom, North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. It offers acousto-optic products, such as acoustic-optic modulators, deflectors, frequency shifters, mode lockers, pulse pickers, Q-switches, tunable filters, and RF drivers; crystal optics, including crystals and nonlinear optics, lithium niobate wafers, and periodically-poled lithium niobite; and electro-optics, such as pockels cells, lithium niobate Q-switches, and pockels cell drivers. The company also provides fiber optics, such as DFB lasers and modules, fiber-coupled pump lasers, high-speed detectors and power combiners, benchtop laser controllers, polarization-maintaining and single-mode fused fiber couplers, polarization diverse receivers, ruggedized and wideband couplers, planar lightwave circuits, variable optical delay lines, and fiber-coupled modulators; precision optics, including beam splitters, corner cubes, optical domes, optical windows and flats, polymer optics, precision lenses, precision mirrors, precision prisms, ring laser gyroscope components, synchrotron mirrors, waveplates, optical bindings, magnetorheological finishing, optical coatings, single point diamond turning, and super polishing; lens systems; and vision systems for armored fighting vehicles, including embedded image periscope and sighting systems, enhanced drivers vision system, saber commander/gunner sights, spares and repairs, specter camera modules, and unity vision periscopes; and medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics, and laboratory instruments. The company's products are used in semiconductor and microelectronic, metrology, telecommunications, and scientific research industries. Gooch & Housego plc was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Ilminster, the United Kingdom.

Gooch & Housego Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

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GHH MarketRank™: 

Gooch & Housego scored higher than 11% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

  • Consensus Rating

    Gooch & Housego has received a consensus rating of Buy. The company's average rating score is 3.00, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 1 buy rating, no hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

  • Downside Risk

    Gooch & Housego has a consensus price target of GBX 1,150, representing about 5.5% downside from its current price of GBX 1,217.50.

  • Amount of Analyst Coverage

    Gooch & Housego has only been the subject of 1 research reports in the past 90 days.

  • Read more about Gooch & Housego's stock forecast and price target.
  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

    The P/E ratio of Gooch & Housego is 85.14, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 45.63.

  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

    The P/E ratio of Gooch & Housego is 85.14, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Technology sector average P/E ratio of about 75.42.

  • Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

    Gooch & Housego has a P/B Ratio of 2.90. P/B Ratios below 3 indicates that a company is reasonably valued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

  • Short Interest

    There is no current short interest data available for GHH.
  • Dividend Yield

    Gooch & Housego pays a meaningful dividend of 1.09%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

  • Dividend Growth

    Gooch & Housego does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

  • Dividend Coverage

    The dividend payout ratio of Gooch & Housego is 92.31%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable.

  • Read more about Gooch & Housego's dividend.
  • News Sentiment

    Gooch & Housego has a news sentiment score of 0.58. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.77 average news sentiment score of Technology companies.
  • News Coverage This Week

    MarketBeat has tracked 2 news articles for Gooch & Housego this week, compared to 0 articles on an average week.
  • Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

    In the past three months, Gooch & Housego insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

  • Percentage Held by Insiders

    1.31% of the stock of Gooch & Housego is held by insiders.

  • Percentage Held by Institutions

    22.13% of the stock of Gooch & Housego is held by institutions.

  • Read more about Gooch & Housego's insider trading history.
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GHH Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

Gooch & Housego's stock was trading at GBX 600 at the start of the year. Since then, GHH stock has increased by 102.9% and is now trading at GBX 1,217.50.

Gooch & Housego PLC (LON:GHH) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, June, 2nd. The company reported $16.40 earnings per share for the quarter. The firm had revenue of $81.88 million for the quarter. Gooch & Housego had a net margin of 2.44% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 3.33%.

Shares of GHH stock and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Gooch & Housego investors own include ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Ferrexpo (FXPO), Coats Group (COA), Advanced Medical Solutions Group (AMS), Aviva (AV), B&M European Value Retail (BME) and BP (BP).

Company Calendar

Last Earnings
6/02/2026
Today
8/16/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

Stock Exchange
LON
Industry
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components
Sub-Industry
Electronic Components
Current Symbol
LON:GHH
CIK
N/A
Fax
N/A
Employees
1,030
Year Founded
N/A

Price Target and Rating

High Price Target
GBX 1,150
Low Price Target
GBX 1,150
Potential Upside/Downside
-5.5%
Consensus Rating
Buy
Rating Score (0-4)
3.00
Research Coverage
1 Analysts

Profitability

EPS (Trailing Twelve Months)
GBX 14.30
Trailing P/E Ratio
85.14
Forward P/E Ratio
29.72
P/E Growth
N/A
Net Income
£1.07 million
Net Margins
2.44%
Pretax Margin
N/A
Return on Equity
3.33%
Return on Assets
1.88%

Debt

Debt-to-Equity Ratio
45.57
Current Ratio
2.94
Quick Ratio
1.66

Sales & Book Value

Annual Sales
£161.48 million
Price / Sales
2.06
Cash Flow
GBX 68.26 per share
Price / Cash Flow
17.84
Book Value
GBX 420.33 per share
Price / Book
2.90

Miscellaneous

Outstanding Shares
27,371,000
Free Float
N/A
Market Cap
£333.24 million
Optionable
Not Optionable
Beta
0.92
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This page (LON:GHH) was last updated on 8/16/2026 by MarketBeat.com Staff.
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