Gattaca (LON:GATC) Reaches New 1-Year Low – Here’s Why

Gattaca plc (LON:GATC) reached a new 52-week low during trading on Thursday . The stock traded as low as GBX 81 ($1.05) and last traded at GBX 81 ($1.05), with a volume of 67391 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at GBX 89 ($1.16).

Gattaca Price Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.59, a quick ratio of 1.51 and a current ratio of 1.56. The company’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 95.03 and its 200 day moving average price is GBX 93.19. The firm has a market capitalization of £26.49 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 1,698.40, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.47 and a beta of 2.14.

Gattaca Cuts Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, December 13th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, October 31st will be paid a dividend of GBX 2.50 ($0.03) per share. This represents a yield of 2.81%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 31st. Gattaca’s payout ratio is 6,000.00%.

Gattaca Company Profile

Gattaca plc, a human capital resources company, provides contract and permanent recruitment services in the private and public sectors. The company operates through eight segments: Mobility; Energy; Defence; Technology, Media, and Telecoms; Infrastructure; Gattaca Projects; International; and other. It offers flexible, permanent, and total workforce solutions; engineering, and technology support solutions; statement of work solutions; and technical recruitment, engineering and technology, and employer branding solutions, as well as analysis, design, technical authoring and publications, process engineering, systems, and IT and digital services.