Henderson Smaller Companies (LON:HSL) Stock Passes Below 50 Day Moving Average of $774.36

Henderson Smaller Companies (LON:HSL) shares passed below its fifty day moving average during trading on Thursday . The stock has a fifty day moving average of GBX 774.36 ($9.80) and traded as low as GBX 770 ($9.75). Henderson Smaller Companies shares last traded at GBX 776 ($9.82), with a volume of 81,343 shares trading hands.

Henderson Smaller Companies Price Performance

The company has a market capitalization of £584.39 million, a P/E ratio of -958.02 and a beta of 1.26. The company’s 50-day moving average price is GBX 774.36 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 751.43. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 14.79, a current ratio of 0.33 and a quick ratio of 0.20.

Henderson Smaller Companies Cuts Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, March 5th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, February 8th were given a GBX 7.50 ($0.09) dividend. This represents a dividend yield of 0.96%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, February 8th. Henderson Smaller Companies’s payout ratio is presently -3,333.33%.

Insider Activity

In related news, insider Yen Mei Lim acquired 1,276 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 14th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 783 ($9.91) per share, with a total value of £9,991.08 ($12,645.34). Insiders own 4.29% of the company’s stock.

Henderson Smaller Companies Company Profile

The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Henderson Investment Funds Limited. It is co-managed by Henderson Global Investors Limited. The fund invests in the public equity markets of the United Kingdom. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors.