Benchmark Holdings plc (LON:BMK - Get Free Report)'s stock price passed above its 50-day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a 50-day moving average of GBX 39.54 ($0.53) and traded as high as GBX 41 ($0.55). Benchmark shares last traded at GBX 40.20 ($0.54), with a volume of 36,049 shares trading hands.

The company has a quick ratio of 1.41, a current ratio of 2.71 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 36.32. The business's fifty day moving average price is GBX 39.54 and its 200 day moving average price is GBX 41.70. The firm has a market capitalization of £297.40 million, a PE ratio of -1,005.00, a PEG ratio of -19.62 and a beta of 0.69.

Benchmark Holdings plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of technical services, products, and specialist knowledge that supports the development of food and farming industries. It operates through Genetics, Advanced Nutrition, and Health segments. The Genetics segment offers sea bass and bream, salmon, and shrimp breeding technologies and production facilities to the harnesses industry to provide various genetic merit ova.

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