Keysight Technologies Inc (NYSE:KEYS) concluded the trading at $165.40 on Friday, May 16 with a rise of 0.38% from its closing price on previous day.
Company’s P/E ratio for the trailing 12 months is 47.36. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that KEYS hit a high price of $186.20 and saw its price falling to a low level of $119.72 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came adding 22.71% in its value.
With its current market valuation of $28.58 billion, Keysight Technologies Inc is set to declare its quarterly results in June. Analysts are in estimates of 1.65 per share for company’s earnings in the current quarter and are expecting its annual EPS growth moving up to 7.01 for current year with estimates of that growing to 7.94 in next year.
Analysts watching the company’s growth closely have provided estimates for its revenue growth with an average revenue estimate of 1.28B. They suggested that in the process company could generate revenue of as low as 1.28B which could climb up to 1.29B to hit a high. The average estimate is representing an increase of 5.43% in sales growth from that of posted by the company in the same quarter of last year. In keeping analyst consensus estimate with, company is forecasted to be making an annual revenue of 5.24B in current fiscal year, which will be 5.27% more from revenue generated by the company last year.
In contrast, when we review KEYS stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of Hold, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of 50% Sell. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of 100% Buy for it.
According to ratings assigned by 10 analysts at the scale of 1 to 5 with 1.00 representing a strong buy and 5.00 suggesting a strong sell; 2 of them are recommending Keysight Technologies Inc (KEYS) as a Hold, while 8 are in view that stock is a Buy. Recommendation by 0 analysts for the stock is an Underweight while number of those analysts who rated the stock as an Overweight is 0, whereas 0 of them are considering the stock as a Sell. When taken as whole, stock gets a rating of Overweight and that encourages the investors to exploit the opportunity and build their stake up in the company.
Digging deeper we become aware of the PEG ratio of the KEYS stock which is currently positioned at 3.76. It further provides that stock’s current price level is 10.56% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is 12.10% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 72.66 while volatility remained at 1.42% over the past week which changes to 2.20% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 1.11, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 4.30. In predicting price targets of as low as $150 and as high as $205, analysts are in agreement on assigning the stock over the next 12 months average price target of $184. Stock’s current price level is 9.31% above from estimated low price target while it is -23.94% below the estimated high; and even if the KEYS’s share succeeded to reach the median price of $184, then the outlook of -11.25% could come to the excitement of the investors.
The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 0.71% while it is 90.83% for the institutional holders. Addition of 2.97% by stock’s current price to its year-to-date value in last trading session is likely to be increasing investors’ interest in the stock as it is hinting an extended uptrend.
