With 1.1 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.56 million shares. During the session, the Semiconductors company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $9.216 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $9.025. The 52-week range on HIMX shows that it touched its highest point at $13.91 and its lowest point at $5.12 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $8.60. With its current market cap of 1.59 billion, HIMX has annualized dividend of $0.29 while the current yield stands at 3.18%. HIMX paid its most recent dividend on 1719532800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1751241600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.21.
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 HIMX was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 7.94%, but this was up by 8.32% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 5.07% while six-month performance rose 32.99%. The stock gained 36.38% in the past year, while it has gained 13.31% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HIMX yields 0.50 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.58. For the next quarter, that number is 0.10. This implies an EPS growth rate of -11.55% for this year and 42.98% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 174.90 million HIMX shares are outstanding with a float of 174.90 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-05-30, short shares totaled 6.67 million, which was 381.0 higher than short shares on 1745971200. In addition to Mr. Jordan Wu as the firm’s Co-Founder, President, CEO & Director, Ms. Ming-Feng Pan serves as its Chief Financial Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.19701 of HIMX’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 2025-03-31, HIMX reported revenue of $215133000.0 and operating income of $19806000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $29754000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.228.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for HIMX since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 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 HIMX analysts setting a high price target of 12.3 and a low target of 7.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 9.94. Based on these targets, HIMX could surge 35.02% to reach the target high and fall by -23.16% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 9.11% 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 $0.48536 being high and $0.38452 being low. For HIMX, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.4191.
