Himax Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:HIMX) does about 1.10M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1748704 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 1.32B USD. Its current market price is $7.70, marking an increase of 1.99% compared to the previous close of $7.55. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $12.37 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $4.81. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $7.76 and a low of $7.60.
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Himax Technologies Inc. (HIMX) has a 20-day trading average at $6.95 and the current price is -37.75% off the 52-week high compared with 60.08% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $6.99 and its 200-day simple moving average is $7.24. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 3.09%, which increases to 4.10% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 64.72 to suggest the stock is neutral.
4 analysts observing the Himax Technologies Inc. (HIMX) stock have set the 12-month price targets for the company’s shares at between $6.60 and $10.00. The consensus objective for the share price is $7.65, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -0.65% over the period. The median price target is -10.0% away from the current levels at $7.00.
FactSet Research has provided data showing that 4 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 1 advise that it is a overweight. 0 analysts have rated it as a buy and 3 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Hold and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Moderate Buy the stock.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on July 14, 2022 when Credit Suisse downgraded the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of $7. Nomura also downgraded the stock to “Neutral” from Buy on April 07, 2022 at a price target of $11.
The current price level is 11.54%, 10.72%, and 6.18% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the HIMX price moving below the 50-day SMA on January 23. Himax Technologies Inc. (HIMX) stock is up 6.94% over the week and 15.96% over the past month. Its price is 23.99% year-to-date and -32.28% over the past year.
The company’s next earnings report is expected on 05/11/2023.
Its 12-month price target is $7.00. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -0.65 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $6.60, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $10.00.
Outstanding shares total 174.40M with insiders holding 30.14% of the shares and institutional holders owning 19.04% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 40.50% and return on equity of 38.10%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 3.24 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 12.83. The beta has a value of 2.11. Price to book ratio is 0.79 and price to sales ratio is 0.95.
Upright Growth Fund isn’t the only investment manager who changed stakes and is followed by Fubon Solactive Metaverse ETF, which added 0.32 million shares to end up with 891,518 shares worth $5.54 million.
