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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ALTR Altair Engineering	$111.85	$111.85	$75.71 ▼ $113.12	$9.60B	1.45	753,729 shs	N/A
FSLR First Solar	$195.19 -0.9%	$179.73	$116.56 ▼ $262.72	$20.93B	1.48	3.55 million shs	1.40 million shs
MCHP Microchip Technology	$65.00 -0.4%	$69.42	$34.13 ▼ $82.65	$35.21B	1.55	9.55 million shs	9.21 million shs
SWKS Skyworks Solutions	$74.94 -0.2%	$73.59	$47.93 ▼ $110.76	$11.15B	1.13	2.59 million shs	2.23 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ALTR Altair Engineering	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	+25.87%
FSLR First Solar	-0.93%	-3.51%	+8.97%	+22.55%	-14.60%
MCHP Microchip Technology	-0.38%	-5.99%	-7.53%	+13.60%	-18.14%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions	-0.21%	-3.04%	+5.06%	+9.27%	-29.79%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
ALTR Altair Engineering	1.6263 of 5 stars	1.0	0.0	0.8	2.9	0.0	3.3	1.9
FSLR First Solar	4.9111 of 5 stars	3.4	3.0	0.0	3.6	2.2	2.5	4.4
MCHP Microchip Technology	4.5481 of 5 stars	3.4	4.0	2.5	3.0	4.0	2.5	0.0
SWKS Skyworks Solutions	4.1842 of 5 stars	2.0	3.0	3.3	2.7	4.2	1.7	1.3

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
ALTR Altair Engineering	2.00	Hold	$109.75	-1.88% Downside
FSLR First Solar	2.89	Moderate Buy	$225.84	15.70% Upside
MCHP Microchip Technology	2.75	Moderate Buy	$76.58	17.81% Upside
SWKS Skyworks Solutions	1.95	Reduce	$72.87	-2.77% Downside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest ALTR, MCHP, FSLR, and SWKS Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/22/2025	FSLR First Solar	Guggenheim Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$202.00 ➝ $287.00
8/18/2025	MCHP Microchip Technology	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Strong-Buy ➝ Hold
8/14/2025	SWKS Skyworks Solutions	Arete Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Strong-Buy
8/12/2025	FSLR First Solar	Glj Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy	$172.53 ➝ $214.06
8/8/2025	MCHP Microchip Technology	Raymond James Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Strong-Buy ➝ Strong-Buy	$65.00 ➝ $75.00
8/8/2025	MCHP Microchip Technology	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$65.00 ➝ $80.00
8/8/2025	MCHP Microchip Technology	Needham & Company LLC Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$66.00 ➝ $77.00
8/8/2025	MCHP Microchip Technology	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Hold	$75.00 ➝ $60.00
8/6/2025	SWKS Skyworks Solutions	Cfra Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Moderate Sell
8/6/2025	SWKS Skyworks Solutions	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Sell ➝ Sell	$63.00 ➝ $66.00
8/5/2025	FSLR First Solar	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy	$255.00 ➝ $275.00

(Data available from 8/30/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
ALTR Altair Engineering	$665.79M	14.41	$1.24 per share	90.15	$10.07 per share	11.11
FSLR First Solar	$4.34B	4.82	$15.87 per share	12.30	$79.69 per share	2.45
MCHP Microchip Technology	$4.40B	7.97	$2.53 per share	25.68	$12.71 per share	5.11
SWKS Skyworks Solutions	$4.01B	2.77	$8.22 per share	9.12	$38.08 per share	1.97

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
ALTR Altair Engineering	$14.18M	$0.17	657.94	86.71	10.75	2.13%	8.08%	4.74%	N/A
FSLR First Solar	$1.29B	$11.69	16.70	9.58	0.39	28.95%	15.57%	10.36%	11/4/2025 (Estimated)
MCHP Microchip Technology	-$500K	-$0.34	N/A	67.71	1.89	-3.50%	6.24%	2.66%	11/4/2025 (Estimated)
SWKS Skyworks Solutions	$596M	$2.50	29.98	26.02	1.68	9.88%	11.77%	8.89%	11/11/2025 (Estimated)

Latest ALTR, MCHP, FSLR, and SWKS Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/7/2025	Q1 2026	MCHP Microchip Technology	$0.24	$0.27	+$0.03	-$0.09	$1.05 billion	$1.08 billion
8/5/2025	Q3 2025	SWKS Skyworks Solutions	$1.24	$1.33	+$0.09	$0.70	$940.00 million	$965.00 million
7/31/2025	Q2 2025	FSLR First Solar	$2.68	$3.18	+$0.50	$3.18	$1.03 billion	$1.10 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
ALTR Altair Engineering	$0.72	0.64%	N/A	423.53%	N/A
FSLR First Solar	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MCHP Microchip Technology	$1.82	2.80%	N/A	N/A	23 Years
SWKS Skyworks Solutions	$2.84	3.79%	N/A	113.60%	11 Years

Latest ALTR, MCHP, FSLR, and SWKS Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
8/5/2025	SWKS Skyworks Solutions	quarterly	$0.71	4.2%	8/26/2025	8/26/2025	9/16/2025
8/7/2025	MCHP Microchip Technology	quarterly	$0.4550	2.75%	8/22/2025	8/22/2025	9/5/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
ALTR Altair Engineering	N/A	1.61	1.61
FSLR First Solar	0.04	1.90	1.41
MCHP Microchip Technology	0.80	2.31	1.33
SWKS Skyworks Solutions	0.09	2.39	1.80

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
ALTR Altair Engineering	63.38%
FSLR First Solar	92.08%
MCHP Microchip Technology	91.51%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions	85.43%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
ALTR Altair Engineering	21.75%
FSLR First Solar	0.48%
MCHP Microchip Technology	1.94%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions	0.28%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
ALTR Altair Engineering	3,000	85.80 million	66.58 million	Optionable
FSLR First Solar	8,100	107.25 million	106.73 million	Optionable
MCHP Microchip Technology	19,400	539.68 million	529.21 million	Optionable
SWKS Skyworks Solutions	11,200	148.43 million	148.01 million	Optionable

ALTR, MCHP, FSLR, and SWKS Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Earnest Partners LLC Lowers Holdings in Skyworks Solutions, Inc. $SWKS

August 30 at 6:38 AM | marketbeat.com

FORA Capital LLC Trims Holdings in Skyworks Solutions, Inc. $SWKS

August 30 at 5:28 AM | marketbeat.com

CW Advisors LLC Invests $553,000 in Skyworks Solutions, Inc. $SWKS

August 30 at 4:23 AM | marketbeat.com

Skyworks Solutions, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:SWKS) Intrinsic Value Is Potentially 47% Above Its Share Price

August 30 at 2:06 AM | finance.yahoo.com

Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec Purchases 238,723 Shares of Skyworks Solutions, Inc. $SWKS

August 29 at 6:05 AM | marketbeat.com

Rafferty Asset Management LLC Trims Stock Holdings in Skyworks Solutions, Inc. $SWKS

August 28 at 8:11 AM | marketbeat.com

Morgan Stanley Maintains Equalweight on Skyworks (SWKS), Cuts Price Target Amid Broadcom Content Loss

August 28 at 8:10 AM | insidermonkey.com

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. $SWKS Shares Sold by Jump Financial LLC

August 28 at 6:14 AM | marketbeat.com

APG Asset Management N.V. Buys 6,045 Shares of Skyworks Solutions, Inc. $SWKS

August 28 at 5:52 AM | marketbeat.com

Allstate Corp Raises Position in Skyworks Solutions, Inc. $SWKS

August 28 at 5:26 AM | marketbeat.com

American Century Companies Inc. Sells 14,095 Shares of Skyworks Solutions, Inc. $SWKS

August 28 at 3:59 AM | marketbeat.com

Quantitative Investment Management LLC Buys Shares of 17,226 Skyworks Solutions, Inc. $SWKS

August 27 at 7:03 AM | marketbeat.com

SVB Wealth LLC Has $1.11 Million Position in Skyworks Solutions, Inc. $SWKS

August 26, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. $SWKS Shares Acquired by Groupe la Francaise

August 26, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Philip Carter Named Skyworks Solutions CFO

August 26, 2025 | ocbj.comO

Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) Announces Appointment of New CFO

August 25, 2025 | gurufocus.com

Skyworks Solutions Reappoints Philip Carter as CFO

August 25, 2025 | tipranks.com

Skyworks Names Phil Carter as Chief Financial Officer

August 25, 2025 | mms.businesswire.com

Skyworks Names Phil Carter as Chief Financial Officer

August 25, 2025 | finance.yahoo.com

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. $SWKS Stock Holdings Lifted by Credit Agricole S A

August 25, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. $SWKS Shares Purchased by Korea Investment CORP

August 25, 2025 | marketbeat.com

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ALTR, MCHP, FSLR, and SWKS Company Descriptions

Altair Engineering NASDAQ:ALTR

Altair Engineering Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of simulation and design, high-performance computing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Software and Client Engineering Services. The Software segment offers solvers and optimization technology products, high-performance computing software applications and hardware products, modeling and visualization tools, data analytics and analysis products, and Internet of Things platform and analytics tools, as well as support and the complementary software products. This segment also provides software technologies in the areas of computational fluid dynamics and fatigue, manufacturing process simulation, and cost estimation for the applications in automotive, marine, motorcycle, aerospace, chemical, and architecture industries; and software-related services, such as consulting, implementation, and training services that focuses on the product design and development expertise and analysis from the component level up to complete product engineering at various stage of the lifecycle. The Client Engineering Services segment provides client engineering services. In addition, the company is involved in the development and sale of solid state lighting technology along with communication and control protocols based on its intellectual property for the direct replacement of fluorescent tubes with LED lighting. Its integrated suite of software optimizes design performance across various disciplines, including structures, motion, fluids, thermal management, electromagnetics, system modeling, and embedded systems. The company serves universities, government agencies, manufacturers, pharmaceutical firms, banking, financial services, and insurance, weather prediction agencies, and electronics design companies. Altair Engineering Inc. was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Troy, Michigan.

First Solar NASDAQ:FSLR

$195.19 -1.83 (-0.93%)

Closing price 08/29/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$195.06 -0.13 (-0.07%)

As of 08/29/2025 07:59 PM Eastern

First Solar, Inc., a solar technology company, provides photovoltaic (PV) solar energy solutions in the United States, France, Japan, Chile, and internationally. The company manufactures and sells PV solar modules with a thin film semiconductor technology that provides a lower-carbon alternative to conventional crystalline silicon PV solar modules. It designs, manufactures, and sells cadmium telluride solar modules that converts sunlight into electricity. The company's residual business operations include project development activities, operations and maintenance services, and the sale of PV solar power systems to third-party customers. It serves developers and operators of systems, utilities, independent power producers, commercial and industrial companies, and other system owners. The company was formerly known as First Solar Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to First Solar, Inc. in 2006. First Solar, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona.

Microchip Technology NASDAQ:MCHP

$65.00 -0.25 (-0.38%)

Closing price 08/29/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$65.07 +0.07 (+0.11%)

As of 08/29/2025 07:57 PM Eastern

Microchip Technology Incorporated engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of smart, connected, and secure embedded control solutions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The company offers general purpose 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit mixed-signal microcontrollers; 32-bit embedded mixed-signal microprocessors; and specialized microcontrollers for automotive, industrial, computing, communications, lighting, power supplies, motor control, human machine interface, security, wired connectivity, and wireless connectivity applications. It also provides analog, interface, mixed signal, and timing products comprising power management, linear, mixed-signal, high-voltage, thermal management, discrete diodes, and metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETS), radio frequency (RF), drivers, safety, security, timing, USB, Ethernet, wireless, and other interface products; field-programmable gate array (FPGA) products; and application development tools that enable system designers to program microcontroller, FPGA, and microprocessor products for specific applications. In addition, the company offers serial electrically erasable programmable read-only memory, serial flash memories, parallel flash memories, serial static random access memories, and serial electrically erasable random access memories for the production of very small footprint devices; and licenses its SuperFlash embedded flash and non-volatile memory technologies to foundries, integrated device manufacturers, and design partners for use in the manufacture of microcontroller products, gate array, RF, analog, and neuromorphic compute products that require embedded non-volatile memory, as well as provides engineering services. Further, it offers wafer foundry and assembly, and test subcontracting manufacturing services; and timing systems products, application specific integrated circuits, and aerospace products. The company was incorporated in 1989 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona.

Skyworks Solutions NASDAQ:SWKS

$74.94 -0.16 (-0.21%)

Closing price 08/29/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$74.92 -0.02 (-0.03%)

As of 08/29/2025 06:47 PM Eastern

Skyworks Solutions, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets proprietary semiconductor products in the United States, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the rest of Asia-Pacific. Its product portfolio includes amplifiers, antenna tuners, attenuators, automotive tuners and digital radios, DC/DC converters, demodulators, detectors, diodes, wireless analog system on chip products, directional couplers, diversity receive modules, filters, front-end modules, hybrids, light emitting diode drivers, low noise amplifiers, mixers, modulators, optocouplers/optoisolators, phase locked loops, phase shifters, power dividers/combiners, power over ethernet, power isolators, receivers, switches, synthesizers, timing devices, voltage controlled oscillators/synthesizers, and voltage regulators. The company products are the used in aerospace, automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, connected home, defense, entertainment and gaming, industrial, medical, military, smartphone, tablet, and wearable markets. It sells its products through direct sales force, electronic component distributors, and independent sales representatives. Skyworks Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1962 and is based in Irvine, California.

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