Senior (LON:SNR) Trading Down 6% – What’s Next?

Senior plc (LON:SNR) fell 6% during mid-day trading on Wednesday . The stock traded as low as GBX 118 ($1.57) and last traded at GBX 118.60 ($1.58). 1,243,328 shares were traded during mid-day trading, a decline of 55% from the average session volume of 2,788,214 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 126.20 ($1.68).

Senior Stock Performance

The business has a 50-day moving average price of GBX 147.75 and a 200-day moving average price of GBX 149.74. The company has a quick ratio of 0.84, a current ratio of 1.56 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 59.35. The firm has a market capitalization of £540.42 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.56, a P/E/G ratio of 0.11 and a beta of 1.47.

Senior (LON:SNR) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, March 3rd. The company reported GBX 7.17 ($0.10) earnings per share for the quarter. Senior had a return on equity of 6.67% and a net margin of 3.09%. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that Senior plc will post 5.8304196 earnings per share for the current year.

Senior Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, May 30th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 1st will be paid a dividend of GBX 1.65 ($0.02) per share. This is a boost from Senior’s previous dividend of $0.75. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 1st. This represents a dividend yield of 1.01%. Senior’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 27.22%.

Senior Company Profile

Senior is an international, market-leading, engineering solutions provider with 30 operating businesses in 13 countries*.

Senior designs, manufactures and markets high-technology components and systems for the principal original equipment producers in the worldwide aerospace, defence, land vehicle and power & energy markets.

The Group aims to create long-term sustainable growth in shareholder value through a culture of empowerment of autonomous and collaborative operations working within an effective control framework.