Ingrid Estrada Sells 2,000 Shares of Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) Stock

Keysight Technologies Inc. (NYSE:KEYS) SVP Ingrid Estrada sold 2,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, August 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $314.66, for a total transaction of $629,320.00. Following the transaction, the senior vice president directly owned 103,861 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $32,680,902.26. The trade was a 1.89% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Keysight Technologies Stock Up 3.2%

Shares of KEYS stock opened at $320.54 on Wednesday. The stock has a market cap of $54.78 billion, a P/E ratio of 44.03, a PEG ratio of 1.77 and a beta of 1.22. Keysight Technologies Inc. has a 52 week low of $158.79 and a 52 week high of $374.96. The company has a quick ratio of 1.62, a current ratio of 2.02 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.28. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $331.33 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $317.27.

Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August 18th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $3.07 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.48 by $0.59. Keysight Technologies had a return on equity of 24.34% and a net margin of 19.08%.The firm had revenue of $1.85 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.75 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.72 earnings per share. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 36.5% compared to the same quarter last year. Keysight Technologies has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 3.340-3.400 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 11.460-11.460 EPS. Analysts predict that Keysight Technologies Inc. will post 9.03 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Keysight Technologies

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the business. California State Teachers Retirement System boosted its stake in shares of Keysight Technologies by 34,044.8% during the second quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System now owns 92,234,343 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $32,288,476,000 after purchasing an additional 91,964,216 shares during the period. BlackRock Inc. bought a new position in shares of Keysight Technologies in the second quarter worth about $7,030,806,000. Norges Bank purchased a new position in Keysight Technologies in the 4th quarter worth about $435,542,000. Focus Partners Wealth increased its stake in Keysight Technologies by 3,941.3% in the 4th quarter. Focus Partners Wealth now owns 1,406,286 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $285,743,000 after buying an additional 1,371,488 shares during the period. Finally, Legal & General Group Plc bought a new stake in Keysight Technologies during the 2nd quarter valued at about $464,017,000. 84.58% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of research analysts recently weighed in on the stock. Robert W. Baird raised their target price on shares of Keysight Technologies from $385.00 to $410.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday, August 19th. Barclays upped their price target on shares of Keysight Technologies from $387.00 to $429.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, August 19th. Morgan Stanley increased their price objective on shares of Keysight Technologies from $400.00 to $425.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 19th. Zacks Research upgraded shares of Keysight Technologies from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Finally, Truist Financial upped their target price on shares of Keysight Technologies from $376.00 to $400.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 19th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, eleven have given a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Keysight Technologies currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $392.83.

Keysight Technologies Company Profile

Keysight Technologies is a global provider of electronic design, test, measurement and optimization solutions for communications, electronics and related industries. The company was formed as a corporate spin-off from Agilent Technologies in 2014; its origins trace back to the electronic measurement business that was part of Hewlett?Packard before Agilent. Keysight develops hardware and software used throughout the product development lifecycle, from design and simulation to prototype validation and manufacturing test.

Keysight’s product portfolio includes electronic test and measurement instruments such as oscilloscopes, network and spectrum analyzers, signal generators, vector network analyzers and modular PXI-based systems, together with software platforms for simulation, automated test and data analysis.