Holdings of Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc (KLIC) are aligned with the stars

With 0.53 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.55 million shares. During the session, the Semiconductor Equipment & Materials company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $52.04 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $48.25. The 52-week range on KLIC shows that it touched its highest point at $56.71 and its lowest point at $38.20 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $50.83. With its current market cap of 2.63 billion, KLIC has annualized dividend of $0.80 while the current yield stands at 1.64%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.38.

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Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of KLIC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.75%, but this was up by 5.18% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 14.28% while six-month performance rose 3.59%. The stock lost -10.22% in the past year, while it has lost -10.95% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for KLIC yields -1.22 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.58. For the next quarter, that number is 0.28. This implies an EPS growth rate of 5575.33% for this year and 51.74% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 53.85 million KLIC shares are outstanding with a float of 51.93 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-29, short shares totaled 3.26 million, which was 605.99998 higher than short shares on 1730332800. In addition to Dr. Fusen Ernie Chen Ph.D. as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Lester A. Wong J.D. serves as its Executive VP of Finance & IT and CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.95919997 of KLIC’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-28, KLIC reported revenue of $181319000.0 and operating income of $2689000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $14951000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for KLIC since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With KLIC analysts setting a high price target of 60.0 and a low target of 45.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 52.0. Based on these targets, KLIC could surge 23.13% to reach the target high and fall by -7.65% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 6.71% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.055 being high and $0.04253092 being low. For KLIC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.044. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.35 and the low estimate is $0.26. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.3.