With 4.58 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 10.22 million shares. During the session, the Semiconductors company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $9.65 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $9.435. The 52-week range on ASX shows that it touched its highest point at $12.86 and its lowest point at $8.10 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $9.10. With its current market cap of 20.69 billion, ASX has annualized dividend of $0.32 while the current yield stands at 3.32%. ASX paid its most recent dividend on 1719878400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1719878400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.17.
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 ASX was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.74%, but this was down by -7.74% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -5.92% while six-month performance rose 2.92%. The stock lost -13.28% in the past year, while it has lost -5.36% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ASX yields 0.45 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.86. For the next quarter, that number is 0.11. This implies an EPS growth rate of 42.08% for this year and 32.70% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 2.17 billion ASX shares are outstanding with a float of 2.17 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 14.46 million, which was 67.00000299999999 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. Hung-Pen Chang as the firm’s Vice Chairman, GM & President, Mr. Joseph Tung serves as its Group CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.08036 of ASX’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 2024-12-31, ASX reported revenue of $160105000000.0 and operating income of $11476000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $27641000000.0 and diluted EPS was $4.34.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for ASX since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 ASX analysts setting a high price target of 13.9 and a low target of 12.42424, the average target price over the next 12 months is 13.10808. Based on these targets, ASX could surge 45.86% to reach the target high and rise by 30.37% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 37.55% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $16.75851 being high and $13.08349 being low. For ASX, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $14.94928. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.14 and the low estimate is $0.14. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.14.
