Taking on analysts’ expectations and winning: Entegris Inc (ENTG)

With 1.23 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.1 million shares. During the session, the Semiconductor Equipment & Materials company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $100.53 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $98.64. The 52-week range on ENTG shows that it touched its highest point at $147.57 and its lowest point at $94.92 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $130.92. With its current market cap of 15.06 billion, ENTG has annualized dividend of $0.40 while the current yield stands at 0.40%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.24.

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 ENTG was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.71%, but this was down by -8.81% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -9.36% while six-month performance fell -30.61%. The stock lost -11.62% in the past year, while it has gained 0.71% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ENTG yields 1.51 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.79. For the next quarter, that number is 0.79. This implies an EPS growth rate of 11.64% for this year and 28.48% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 16.40% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -6.65%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 150.99 million ENTG shares are outstanding with a float of 150.27 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 7.13 million, which was 471.99998 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Bertrand Loy as the firm’s CEO, President & Chairman, Ms. Linda LaGorga serves as its Senior VP, CFO & Treasurer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 1.02323 of ENTG’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, ENTG reported revenue of $807694000.0 and operating income of $126367000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $219039000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.51.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for ENTG since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 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 ENTG analysts setting a high price target of 154.0 and a low target of 115.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 129.73077. Based on these targets, ENTG could surge 54.37% to reach the target high and rise by 15.28% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 30.04% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.02045 being high and $2.87763 being low. For ENTG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.94722.