Summit Insights raised the price target for the Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ:SLAB) stock from “a Hold” to “a Buy”. The rating was released on February 02, 2023, according to finviz. We previously noted in another research note published on December 07, 2022 by Cowen that reiterated the stock to an Outperform with a price target of $175 for SLAB stock. The stock was downgraded by Barclays, who disclosed in a research note on October 24, 2022, from Equal Weight to Underweight and set the price objective to $95.
The latest trade, Performances and Moving Averages give us the following Picture
The share price of Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ:SLAB) dipped -0.71% to close Friday’s market session at $171.22, lower as compared to yesterday’s close. The stock price fluctuated between $170.005 and $173.70 throughout the trading session with the volume trading being 956732 shares, which represented a significant variation when compared to the three months average volume of 428.10K shares. The firm’s stock price fluctuated 0.84% within the last five trades and -9.14% within the last 30 trades, which was a significant change from the beginning of this year. Despite the fact that the share price increased 31.60% in the last 6 months and 21.11% was added to its value over the previous 3 months. SLAB stock is trading at a margin of -2.33%, 1.97% and 20.11% apart from the 20-Day, 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average prices.
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As of the close of trading, SLAB deals in the Technology domain. The stock is trading -12.05 percent below its 52-week high and 56.45 percent above its 52-week low. For example, looking both at the price and the high and low measurements of 52 weeks will give you a clearer picture of the direction the price is heading. The firm’s Weighted Alpha is 21.2. A positive weighted alpha indicates the firm has done well over the course of the year, whereas one below 0 indicates that the firm has done poorly.
What Does Silicon Laboratories Inc.’s Profitability and Valuation Ratios Tell Us About the Stock?
With regard to the profitability of the company, the operating margin is currently at 11.60 percent and the profit margin is 8.90 percent, and the company has reported a gross margin of 62.70 percent. The profit margin, also known as the revenue ratio or gross profit ratio, is an efficiency figure used to estimate the business’s profitability by comparing net income and sales. The higher the number, the more profits are generated for the company and vice versa.
The stock’s market cap achieved a total value of $5.53 billion as of the last trading session. Market capitalization is the total value of all outstanding shares of a corporation and it is used to measure a company’s market value. The price-to-earnings ratio for Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ:SLAB) is 66.36. The price-to-earnings ratio is a method of assessing corporate values by comparing them to their per-share profit. Forward P/E stands at 31.93. Forward price-to-earnings is calculated using predicted earnings for the next financial year’s P/E determination. The stock has achieved an effective Price-to-Sales Ratio of 5.40 that mirrors the cost to be found for sales by the market. The firm managed a Price-to-Book ratio of 3.97, which equates the market value of a stock with its book value.
Is Insider Trading a Real Thing?
Richardson Nina, the Director at Silicon Laboratories Inc. (SLAB) has sold 912 shares of firm on Jan 27 at a price of $160.00 against the total amount of $0.15 million. In another inside trade, Richardson Nina, Director of Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ:SLAB) sold 1,351 shares of the firm on Nov 15 for a total worth of $0.2 million at a price of $145.00. An inside trade which took place on Aug 24, Director of Silicon Laboratories Inc. Wyatt Christy sold 1,495 shares of firm against total price of $0.2 million at the cost of $134.44 per share.