Keysight Technologies Inc (NYSE: KEYS) is 4.99% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $119.72 and a high of $175.39 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The KEYS stock was last observed hovering at around $172.88 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -4.23%.
Currently trading at $168.65, the stock is 1.86% and 1.93% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.57 million and changing -2.45% at the moment leaves the stock 11.70% off its SMA200. KEYS registered 8.65% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 24.11%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $165.3628 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $150.94604.
The stock witnessed a 3.65% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 9.98%, and is 1.79% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.01% over the week and 1.86% over the month.
Keysight Technologies Inc (KEYS) has around 15500 employees, a market worth around $29.21B and $4.98B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 48.21 and Fwd P/E is 21.02. Profit margin for the company is 12.33%. Distance from 52-week low is 40.87% and -3.84% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (8.66%).
with sales reaching $1.28B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 10.65% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 5.47% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 1.37% in year-over-year returns.
Keysight Technologies Inc (KEYS) Top Institutional Holders
1236.0 institutions hold shares in Keysight Technologies Inc (KEYS), with institutional investors hold 90.32% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 172.60M, and float is at 171.82M with Short Float at 1.40%. Institutions hold 89.79% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 20.54 million shares valued at $2.81 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 11.806% of the KEYS Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 17.18 million shares valued at $2.35 billion to account for 9.8753 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ which holds 8.38 million shares representing 4.8161% and valued at over $1.15 billion, while STATE STREET CORP holds 4.4041 of the shares totaling 7.66 million with a market value of $1.05 billion.
Keysight Technologies Inc (KEYS) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by WALLACE Mark ADAM, the company’s SVP. SEC filings show that WALLACE Mark ADAM sold 6,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Dec 30 ’24 at a price of $161.79 per share for a total of $0.97 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 85829.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Dec 04 ’24, Li Jeffrey K (SVP and Secretary) disposed off 4,412 shares at an average price of $171.92 for $0.76 million. The insider now directly holds 30,637 shares of Keysight Technologies Inc (KEYS).