Hays (LON:HAS) Shares Up 11.4% – Should You Buy?

Hays plc (LON:HAS)’s share price shot up 11.4% on Friday . The stock traded as high as GBX 85.10 ($1.10) and last traded at GBX 84.37 ($1.09). 5,629,431 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 19% from the average session volume of 6,928,567 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 75.75 ($0.98).

Hays Stock Up 11.4 %

The company’s 50 day moving average price is GBX 74.94 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 80.48. The company has a quick ratio of 1.31, a current ratio of 1.32 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 43.81. The stock has a market cap of £1.33 billion, a P/E ratio of -270.65, a P/E/G ratio of 0.24 and a beta of 1.13.

Hays (LON:HAS) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 20th. The company reported GBX 0.19 ($0.00) earnings per share for the quarter. Hays had a negative net margin of 0.07% and a negative return on equity of 0.84%. As a group, research analysts expect that Hays plc will post 4.0966184 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Activity at Hays

In other Hays news, insider Joe Hurd acquired 2,857 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, February 24th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 70 ($0.91) per share, with a total value of £1,999.90 ($2,586.86). 0.54% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

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