EPE Special Opportunities (LON:ESO) Stock Breaks Below 200 Day Moving Average – Time to Sell?

EPE Special Opportunities (LON:ESO)’s stock price passed below its two hundred day moving average during trading on Friday. The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 200.80 and traded as low as GBX 198.30. EPE Special Opportunities shares last traded at GBX 198.30, with a volume of 33,898 shares trading hands.

EPE Special Opportunities Stock Down 2.3%

The business’s 50 day moving average is GBX 207.80 and its 200-day moving average is GBX 200.80. The stock has a market cap of £44.76 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 2.33 and a beta of 0.90. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 18.27, a quick ratio of 5.86 and a current ratio of 4.24.

EPE Special Opportunities (LON:ESO) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, September 10th. The company reported GBX 31.27 EPS for the quarter. EPE Special Opportunities had a negative net margin of 10.57% and a negative return on equity of 0.41%.

Insider Activity

In related news, insider Clive L. Spears bought 1,138 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, October 5th. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 199 per share, with a total value of £2,264.62. 2.90% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

About EPE Special Opportunities

EPE Special Opportunities plc specializes in middle market, growth capital, distressed, pre-IPO, special situations, turnaround, PIPES, and buyouts. It also does secondary direct and secondary indirect investing. The fund typically invests in consumer and retail, financial services, manufacturing, media and support services sectors including education, healthcare and social housing. It prefers to invest in United Kingdom. It seeks to invest between $2 million and $30 million in small and medium enterprises.