Information Services (TSE:ISV) Share Price Passes Below 50 Day Moving Average – What’s Next?

Information Services Co. (TSE:ISV) crossed below its 50 day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a 50 day moving average of C$27.75 and traded as low as C$26.20. Information Services shares last traded at C$26.53, with a volume of 5,250 shares.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, CIBC raised their price target on shares of Information Services from C$34.00 to C$35.00 in a research note on Thursday, November 7th.

Information Services Stock Down 0.2 %

The company has a current ratio of 0.74, a quick ratio of 1.69 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 99.98. The company has a market capitalization of C$479.90 million, a P/E ratio of 23.22, a PEG ratio of 1.19 and a beta of 0.59. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of C$27.72 and a 200 day moving average price of C$27.28.

Information Services (TSE:ISV) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November 5th. The company reported C$0.60 EPS for the quarter. Information Services had a return on equity of 12.37% and a net margin of 8.75%. The firm had revenue of C$60.93 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of C$63.40 million. On average, research analysts anticipate that Information Services Co. will post 2.2194553 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Information Services Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, January 15th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 31st will be paid a dividend of $0.23 per share. This represents a $0.92 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.48%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, December 31st. Information Services’s payout ratio is currently 80.70%.

About Information Services

Information Services Corporation provides registry and information management services for public data and records in Canada. It operates through three segments: Registry Operations, Services, and Technology Solutions. The company provides land titles registry services that issues titles to land and registers transactions affecting titles; land survey services, which registers land survey plans and creates a representation of Saskatchewan land parcels in the cadastral parcel mapping system; and geomatics services that manages geographic data in relation to the cadastral parcel mapping system.