Photronics, Inc (NASDAQ: PLAB) on Friday, plunged -3.20% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $21.28. Within the past 52 weeks, PLAB’s price has moved between $19.61 and $31.60.
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Annual sales at Technology sector company grew by 9.84% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -0.49%. With a float of $61.14 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $62.30 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 1878 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 36.19%, operating margin of 25.05%, and the pretax margin is 31.39%.
Photronics, Inc (PLAB) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Observing investor behavior towards Semiconductor Equipment & Materials industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Photronics, Inc is 3.81%, while institutional ownership is 90.92%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 25 ’25, was worth 216,334. In this transaction Director of this company sold 10,000 shares at a rate of $21.63, taking the stock ownership to the 29,548 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 26 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 10,000 for $21.60, making the entire transaction worth $216,000.
Photronics, Inc (PLAB) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.48 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -0.49% per share during the next fiscal year.
Photronics, Inc (NASDAQ: PLAB) Trading Performance Indicators
Photronics, Inc (PLAB) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 5.31 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.52. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 7.46.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.36, a number that is poised to hit 0.48 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.25 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Photronics, Inc (PLAB)
Photronics, Inc (NASDAQ: PLAB) saw its 5-day average volume 0.56 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 0.58 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 49.83%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.68.
During the past 100 days, Photronics, Inc’s (PLAB) raw stochastic average was set at 8.26%, which indicates a significant decrease from 11.85% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 25.59% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 37.74% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $21.98, while its 200-day Moving Average is $23.77. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $21.11 in the near term. At $21.63, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $21.97. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $20.26, it is likely to go to the next support level at $19.92. The third support level lies at $19.40 if the price breaches the second support level.
Photronics, Inc (NASDAQ: PLAB) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 1.31 billion based on 63,562K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 866,950 K and income totals 130,690 K. The company made 212,140 K in profit during its latest quarter, and 42,850 K in sales during its previous quarter.
