Wickes Group (LON:WIX) Shares Up 1.1% – Still a Buy?

Wickes Group plc (LON:WIX)’s stock price shot up 1.1% during trading on Thursday . The company traded as high as GBX 173.80 ($2.20) and last traded at GBX 170.20 ($2.15). 418,957 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 58% from the average session volume of 989,957 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 168.40 ($2.13).

Wickes Group Trading Down 0.9 %

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 456.98, a quick ratio of 0.58 and a current ratio of 1.10. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 161.28 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 160.38. The company has a market cap of £398.25 million, a P/E ratio of 13.60, a P/E/G ratio of 0.79 and a beta of 0.78.

Wickes Group Company Profile

Wickes is one of the UK’s best known home improvement retailers. Having opened our first store in 1972 we now have over 230 stores across the UK, employing 8,500 colleagues and offering products ranging from kitchens and bathrooms, to paint, tools and timber.

Wickes is a successful, growing, cash generative and profitable business, operating in the large and growing £25 billion UK Home Improvement market.