Photronics, Inc (NASDAQ: PLAB) flaunted slowness of -8.84% at $31.78, as the Stock market unbolted on Thursday, before settling in for the price of $34.86 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, PLAB posted a 52-week range of $16.46-$39.80.
The Technology Sector giants’ yearly sales growth during the last 5-year period was 34.53%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 34.53%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 6.30%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $57.63 million, simultaneously with a float of $56.48 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $1.88 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $27.39, while the 200-day Moving Average is $22.27.
Photronics, Inc (PLAB) Ownership Facts and Figures
Sometimes it is also beneficial to study the sentiment of large-scale investors towards the stock of the Photronics, Inc industry. Photronics, Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 4.37%, in contrast to 91.48% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Jan 06 ’26, this organization’s Director sold 10,000 shares at the rate of 35.41, making the entire transaction reach 354,100 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 455,850. Preceding that transaction, on Jan 05 ’26, Company’s Director sold 10,000 for 33.90, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 339,000. This particular insider is now the holder of 465,850 in total.
Photronics, Inc (NASDAQ: PLAB) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Photronics, Inc (PLAB). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 4.99. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $13.88, and its Beta score is 1.52. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 2.21. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 31.46.
In the same vein, PLAB’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 2.29, a figure that is expected to reach 0.53 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 2.31 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Photronics, Inc (PLAB)
Now, what If we examine the latest scores posted by [Photronics, Inc, PLAB]. During the last 5-days, its volume was better the volume of 1.38 million it reported in year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 56.04% While, its Average True Range was 44.99.
Raw Stochastic average of Photronics, Inc (PLAB) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 59.40%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 6.67% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 1.41 that was higher than 1.05 volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
