Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC Has $781,000 Stock Position in Amkor Technology, Inc. $AMKR

Key Points

• Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC increased its stake in Amkor Technology, Inc. by 36.4%, owning 37,212 shares valued at $781,000 as of its latest SEC filing.
• Amkor Technology received positive analyst ratings, with Needham & Company raising its target price from $22.00 to $28.00, and a consensus target price of $27.11 among analysts.
• Amkor Technology recently declared a quarterly dividend of $0.0827 per share, representing an annual yield of 1.0% and a payout ratio of 26.83%.

Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC boosted its stake in shares of Amkor Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMKR - Free Report) by 36.4% in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 37,212 shares of the semiconductor company's stock after purchasing an additional 9,935 shares during the period. Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC's holdings in Amkor Technology were worth $781,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Other hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. GAMMA Investing LLC increased its holdings in Amkor Technology by 54.9% during the first quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 4,853 shares of the semiconductor company's stock worth $88,000 after buying an additional 1,721 shares during the last quarter. Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC grew its position in shares of Amkor Technology by 22.7% in the 1st quarter. Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC now owns 20,963 shares of the semiconductor company's stock valued at $379,000 after acquiring an additional 3,885 shares during the period. Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc. increased its stake in shares of Amkor Technology by 5.0% during the 1st quarter. Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc. now owns 37,970 shares of the semiconductor company's stock worth $686,000 after purchasing an additional 1,819 shares during the last quarter. Wealthquest Corp bought a new stake in shares of Amkor Technology in the 1st quarter valued at about $2,413,000. Finally, Diversified Trust Co acquired a new stake in Amkor Technology in the 1st quarter valued at about $491,000. 42.76% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

AMKR has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Morgan Stanley reissued an "equal weight" rating on shares of Amkor Technology in a research report on Tuesday, July 29th. Needham & Company LLC lifted their target price on Amkor Technology from $22.00 to $28.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 29th. Weiss Ratings reissued a "hold (c)" rating on shares of Amkor Technology in a report on Wednesday, October 8th. Wall Street Zen upgraded Amkor Technology from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating in a research note on Friday, September 5th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their price objective on shares of Amkor Technology from $25.00 to $27.00 and gave the stock an "overweight" rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 29th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and seven have issued a Hold rating to the company's stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Amkor Technology currently has an average rating of "Hold" and a consensus target price of $27.11.

Amkor Technology Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ AMKR opened at $32.28 on Tuesday. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $26.98 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $22.21. The stock has a market capitalization of $7.98 billion, a PE ratio of 26.24 and a beta of 1.98. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.28, a current ratio of 1.89 and a quick ratio of 1.70. Amkor Technology, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $14.03 and a fifty-two week high of $33.54.

Amkor Technology (NASDAQ:AMKR - Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Monday, July 28th. The semiconductor company reported $0.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.16 by $0.06. The company had revenue of $1.51 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.42 billion. Amkor Technology had a return on equity of 7.23% and a net margin of 4.80%.Amkor Technology's quarterly revenue was up 3.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.27 EPS. Amkor Technology has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 0.340-0.480 EPS. As a group, equities analysts predict that Amkor Technology, Inc. will post 1.47 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Amkor Technology Announces Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, September 23rd. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, September 3rd were issued a dividend of $0.0827 per share. This represents a $0.33 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.0%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, September 3rd. Amkor Technology's dividend payout ratio is 26.83%.

Insider Buying and Selling at Amkor Technology

In related news, EVP Farshad Haghighi sold 11,792 shares of Amkor Technology stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, September 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $25.00, for a total value of $294,800.00. Following the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 8,354 shares of the company's stock, valued at $208,850. This trade represents a 58.53% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. Also, major shareholder John T. Kim bought 441,589 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Friday, August 1st. The shares were acquired at an average price of $21.85 per share, with a total value of $9,648,719.65. Following the completion of the purchase, the insider directly owned 3,789,479 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $82,800,116.15. The trade was a 13.19% increase in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 46,792 shares of company stock worth $1,255,900 in the last three months. Company insiders own 26.90% of the company's stock.

About Amkor Technology

Amkor Technology, Inc provides outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services in the United States, Japan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers turnkey packaging and test services, including semiconductor wafer bump, wafer probe, wafer back-grind, package design, packaging, system-level and final test, and drop shipment services; flip chip scale package products for smartphones, tablets, and other mobile consumer electronic devices; flip chip stacked chip scale packages that are used to stack memory digital baseband, and as applications processors in mobile devices; flip-chip ball grid array packages for various networking, storage, computing, automotive, and consumer applications; and memory products for system memory or platform data storage.

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