Gooch & Housego (LON:GHH) Shares Cross Above 200-Day Moving Average – Here’s What Happened

Posted by Jessica Moore on Feb 22nd, 2026

Gooch & Housego PLC (LON:GHH – Get Free Report) shares crossed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of GBX 587.66 and traded as high as GBX 768. Gooch & Housego shares last traded at GBX 750, with a volume of 110,884 shares.

Gooch & Housego Price Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 29.92, a quick ratio of 1.66 and a current ratio of 3.19. The company has a market cap of £205.28 million, a PE ratio of 56.39 and a beta of 0.96. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 664.24 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 587.70.

Gooch & Housego (LON:GHH – Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, December 2nd. The company reported GBX 35.40 earnings per share for the quarter. Gooch & Housego had a return on equity of 1.02% and a net margin of 0.78%. On average, sell-side analysts predict that Gooch & Housego PLC will post 40.9691418 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity

In related news, insider Louise Evans acquired 953 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 2nd. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 523 per share, for a total transaction of £4,984.19. Also, insider Charlie Peppiatt sold 41,617 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, January 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 614, for a total value of £255,528.38. Company insiders own 1.31% of the company’s stock.

About Gooch & Housego

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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.