Amkor Technology, Inc. $AMKR Shares Sold by EMC Capital Management

EMC Capital Management lessened its holdings in Amkor Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMKR) by 50.4% in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 10,342 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 10,494 shares during the period. EMC Capital Management’s holdings in Amkor Technology were worth $217,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other large investors have also modified their holdings of AMKR. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its holdings in Amkor Technology by 2.3% in the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 16,025,236 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $289,416,000 after purchasing an additional 361,010 shares during the period. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP raised its position in Amkor Technology by 2.8% in the 1st quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 13,398,430 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $241,980,000 after purchasing an additional 365,975 shares in the last quarter. American Century Companies Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Amkor Technology by 8.4% in the 1st quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 2,937,593 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $53,053,000 after buying an additional 228,591 shares during the period. SW Investment Management LLC boosted its stake in shares of Amkor Technology by 89.3% in the 1st quarter. SW Investment Management LLC now owns 2,650,000 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $47,859,000 after buying an additional 1,250,000 shares during the period. Finally, AQR Capital Management LLC grew its position in shares of Amkor Technology by 41.8% during the first quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 2,572,313 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $45,967,000 after buying an additional 757,956 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 42.76% of the company’s stock.

Insider Transactions at Amkor Technology

In related news, EVP Farshad Haghighi sold 11,792 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, September 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of $25.00, for a total transaction of $294,800.00. Following the transaction, the executive vice president owned 8,354 shares in the company, valued at $208,850. This trade represents a 58.53% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, CEO Guillaume Marie Jean Rutten sold 10,000 shares of Amkor Technology stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, October 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $30.74, for a total value of $307,400.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 356,699 shares in the company, valued at approximately $10,964,927.26. This trade represents a 2.73% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last three months, insiders sold 31,792 shares of company stock valued at $902,200. Insiders own 26.90% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several brokerages recently weighed in on AMKR. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their target price on shares of Amkor Technology from $27.00 to $32.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 28th. DA Davidson raised their price objective on shares of Amkor Technology from $30.00 to $40.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 28th. The Goldman Sachs Group lifted their price objective on shares of Amkor Technology from $26.00 to $29.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 28th. UBS Group increased their target price on Amkor Technology from $23.00 to $25.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 29th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC raised their price target on Amkor Technology from $32.00 to $37.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, October 28th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, four have given a Buy rating and seven have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $29.63.

Amkor Technology Trading Down 0.6%

Shares of Amkor Technology stock opened at $30.69 on Wednesday. The company has a current ratio of 1.77, a quick ratio of 1.70 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $30.79 and a 200-day simple moving average of $24.70. The stock has a market cap of $7.59 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.55 and a beta of 2.02. Amkor Technology, Inc. has a 12-month low of $14.03 and a 12-month high of $38.22.

Amkor Technology (NASDAQ:AMKR) last posted its earnings results on Monday, October 27th. The semiconductor company reported $0.51 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.42 by $0.09. Amkor Technology had a net margin of 4.77% and a return on equity of 7.26%. The firm had revenue of $1.99 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.93 billion. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.49 EPS. The company’s revenue was up 6.7% on a year-over-year basis. Amkor Technology has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 0.380-0.480 EPS. On average, equities analysts forecast that Amkor Technology, Inc. will post 1.47 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Amkor Technology Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, December 23rd. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, December 3rd will be issued a $0.0835 dividend. This represents a $0.33 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.1%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 3rd. This is an increase from Amkor Technology’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.08. Amkor Technology’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 26.40%.

Amkor Technology Company Profile

Amkor Technology, Inc provides outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services in the United States, Japan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers turnkey packaging and test services, including semiconductor wafer bump, wafer probe, wafer back-grind, package design, packaging, system-level and final test, and drop shipment services; flip chip scale package products for smartphones, tablets, and other mobile consumer electronic devices; flip chip stacked chip scale packages that are used to stack memory digital baseband, and as applications processors in mobile devices; flip-chip ball grid array packages for various networking, storage, computing, automotive, and consumer applications; and memory products for system memory or platform data storage.