Photronics (NASDAQ:PLAB – Get Free Report) was downgraded by stock analysts at StockNews.com from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note issued to investors on Friday.
Photronics Trading Down 1.6 %
Shares of PLAB opened at $23.37 on Friday. Photronics has a 12 month low of $18.03 and a 12 month high of $34.16. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $23.96 and a 200 day simple moving average of $26.08. The stock has a market capitalization of $1.48 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.82 and a beta of 1.40.
Photronics (NASDAQ:PLAB – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August 29th. The semiconductor company reported $0.51 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.56 by ($0.05). Photronics had a net margin of 16.22% and a return on equity of 9.46%. The company had revenue of $211.00 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $225.00 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.51 EPS. Photronics’s revenue was down 5.9% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts predict that Photronics will post 2.08 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
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Photronics Company Profile
Photronics, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of photomask products and services in the United States, Taiwan, China, Korea, Europe, and internationally. It offers photomasks that are used in the manufacture of integrated circuits and flat panel displays (FPDs); and to transfer circuit patterns onto semiconductor wafers, and FDP substrates.
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