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Morgan Advanced Materials plc (MGAM) is a leading specialty industrial machinery business based in the UK. Morgan Advanced Materials is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and employs 8,560 staff. All prices are listed in pence sterling.
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- Is Morgan Advanced Materials stock a buy or sell?
- Are Morgan Advanced Materials shares over-valued?
- Morgan Advanced Materials's financials
- How volatile are Morgan Advanced Materials shares?
- Does Morgan Advanced Materials pay a dividend?
- Other common questions
Morgan Advanced Materials share price
Use our graph to track the performance of MGAM stocks over time.Morgan Advanced Materials shares at a glance
Information last updated 2021-01-23.
| 52-week range | 162.3718p - 324.87p |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | 306.7941p |
| 200-day moving average | 259.0141p |
| Wall St. target price | 371.82p |
| PE ratio | 83.3333 |
| Dividend yield | 0.06p (2%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | 3.6p |
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Is Morgan Advanced Materials under- or over-valued?
Valuing Morgan Advanced Materials stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Morgan Advanced Materials's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Morgan Advanced Materials's P/E ratio
Morgan Advanced Materials's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 83x. In other words, Morgan Advanced Materials shares trade at around 83x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the FTSE 250 at the end of September 2019 (19.71). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Morgan Advanced Materials's PEG ratio
Morgan Advanced Materials's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 3.57. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Morgan Advanced Materials's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Morgan Advanced Materials's EBITDA
Morgan Advanced Materials's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is £144.8 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Morgan Advanced Materials's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Morgan Advanced Materials financials
| Revenue TTM | £1 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 10.83% |
| Gross profit TTM | £135 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 6.68% |
| Return on equity TTM | 4.81% |
| Profit margin | 1.04% |
| Book value | 0.844p |
| Market capitalisation | £856.1 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Morgan Advanced Materials share dividends
Dividend payout ratio: 142.86% of net profits
Recently Morgan Advanced Materials has paid out, on average, around 142.86% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 2% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Morgan Advanced Materials shareholders could enjoy a 2% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Morgan Advanced Materials's case, that would currently equate to about 0.06p per share.
Morgan Advanced Materials's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 19 November 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").
Morgan Advanced Materials share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Morgan Advanced Materials's shares have ranged in value from as little as 162.3718p up to 324.87p. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (LSE average) beta is 1, while Morgan Advanced Materials's is 1.4259. This would suggest that Morgan Advanced Materials's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
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Morgan Advanced Materials overview
Morgan Advanced Materials plc operates as a materials science and application engineering company. The company offers high-temperature insulating fiber products, microporous products, firebricks, monolithic products, heat shields, fired refractory shapes, and structural block insulation products; crucibles, foundry products, and furnace industries furnace ranges; and seals and bearings, as well as general pump components, such as shafts, vanes, rotors, and washers. It also provides carbon brushes and brush holders, power slip rings, terminal blocks, diagnostic equipment, carbon current collection strips, shaft grounding brushes, and linear transfer systems; and semiconductor products, engineered coatings, zirconia products, ceramic injection molded products, ceramic cores, braze alloys, and the Haldenwanger range of ceramic tubes and rollers, as well as ceramic to metal assemblies, including brazed and metallized assemblies. The company serves customers in the industrial, transportation, petrochemical and chemical, energy, semiconductor and electronics, healthcare and security and defence markets. It also operates in the United States, China, Germany, France, other Asian countries, Australasia, the Middle East and Africa, other European countries, other North America, and South America. The company was formerly known as The Morgan Crucible Company plc and changed its name to Morgan Advanced Materials plc in March 2013. Morgan Advanced Materials plc was founded in 1856 and is headquartered in Windsor, the United Kingdom.
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