Photronics is a semiconductor equipment & materials business based in the US. Photronics shares (PLAB) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Photronics employs 1,885 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $885 million.
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| Latest market close | $27.32 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $18.03 - $34.16 |
| 50-day moving average | $26.46 |
| 200-day moving average | $26.34 |
| Wall St. target price | $32.00 |
| PE ratio | 12.0093 |
| Dividend yield | N/A (0%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $2.15 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $27.32 from 2024-07-23
| 1 week (2024-07-17) | 2.28% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-06-24) | 11.65% |
| 3 months (2024-04-24) | -0.69% |
| 6 months (2024-01-24) | -12.58% |
| 1 year (2023-07-24) | 7.56% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-07-22) | 25.96% |
| 3 years (2021-07-23) | 105.26% |
| 5 years (2019-07-24) | 174.02% |
Valuing Photronics stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Photronics's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Photronics's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 12x. In other words, Photronics shares trade at around 12x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Photronics's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 4.27. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Photronics's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Photronics's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $326.8 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Photronics's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $885 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 25.83% |
| Gross profit TTM | $294.2 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 9.97% |
| Return on equity TTM | 16.08% |
| Profit margin | 15.14% |
| Book value | $16.75 |
| Market Capitalization | $1.6 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Photronics to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Photronics's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 1 December 1997. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Photronics shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Photronics shares which in turn could have impacted Photronics's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Photronics's shares have ranged in value from as little as $18.0279 up to $34.16. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Photronics's is 1.375. This would suggest that Photronics's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
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. The company offers electrical and optical components. It sells its products to semiconductor and FPD manufacturers, designers, and foundries, as well as to other high-performance electronics manufacturers through its sales personnel and customer service representatives. The company was formerly known as Photronic Labs, Inc. and changed its name to Photronics, Inc.
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