PZ Cussons (LON:PZC) Reaches New 12-Month Low – Time to Sell?

PZ Cussons plc (LON:PZC)’s share price reached a new 52-week low during trading on Tuesday . The stock traded as low as GBX 77.80 ($1.00) and last traded at GBX 79.60 ($1.02), with a volume of 816237 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 79.90 ($1.03).

PZ Cussons Stock Performance

The stock has a market cap of £329.30 million, a PE ratio of -560.71, a PEG ratio of 1.13 and a beta of 0.26. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 90.93 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 99.95. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 75.98, a quick ratio of 1.36 and a current ratio of 1.18.

PZ Cussons Increases Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, December 4th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, October 31st will be paid a dividend of GBX 2.10 ($0.03) per share. This represents a yield of 2.03%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 31st. This is a positive change from PZ Cussons’s previous dividend of $1.50. PZ Cussons’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is -2,857.14%.

Insider Buying and Selling at PZ Cussons

In other news, insider Jonathan Myers sold 69,429 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, September 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 90 ($1.16), for a total value of £62,486.10 ($80,409.34). 43.74% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

About PZ Cussons

PZ Cussons plc manufactures, distributes, markets, and sells baby, beauty, and hygiene products in Europe, the Americas, the Asia Pacific, and Africa. The company offers toiletries, pharmaceuticals, electrical goods, edible oils, fats and spreads, nutritional products, shampoos, body washes, toothpastes, toothbrushes, skin and hair care products, food pouches, cereals, snacks, flavors, and fragrances; beauty soaps, lotions, wipes, creams, shower gels, foam-bursts, bar soaps, deodorants, bath infusions, handwashes, and conditioners; ointments; dishwashing liquids, dishwasher tablets, dishwasher gels, dishwasher capsules, rinse aids, liquid detergents, laundry soaps, and laundry solutions; and cooking and vegetable oils.