Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ:TSEM) Given Average Recommendation of "Moderate Buy" by Brokerages

Key Points

• Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ:TSEM) has received an average rating of "Moderate Buy" from six brokerages, with four recommending to buy and two suggesting to hold the stock.
• The average 12-month price objective from analysts for Tower Semiconductor is $67.60, with some firms setting targets as high as $74.00.
• In its latest quarterly earnings report, Tower Semiconductor missed earnings per share estimates by $0.06, reporting $0.41 compared to the expected $0.47.

Shares of Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ:TSEM - Get Free Report) have been assigned an average rating of "Moderate Buy" from the six brokerages that are covering the stock, Marketbeat reports. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and four have assigned a buy recommendation to the company. The average 12-month price objective among analysts that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $67.60.

A number of research firms recently weighed in on TSEM. Susquehanna set a $66.00 price objective on Tower Semiconductor and gave the company a "positive" rating in a report on Tuesday, August 5th. Benchmark increased their price objective on Tower Semiconductor from $66.00 to $73.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Monday, September 8th. Weiss Ratings restated a "hold (c)" rating on shares of Tower Semiconductor in a report on Wednesday, October 8th. Wedbush set a $65.00 price objective on Tower Semiconductor and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a report on Tuesday, August 5th. Finally, Barclays assumed coverage on Tower Semiconductor in a report on Thursday, September 18th. They issued an "equal weight" rating and a $74.00 price objective for the company.

Tower Semiconductor Stock Performance

NASDAQ TSEM opened at $71.11 on Monday. The company has a market capitalization of $7.88 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 40.87 and a beta of 0.87. Tower Semiconductor has a twelve month low of $28.64 and a twelve month high of $76.86. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $61.56 and a 200 day simple moving average of $47.72. The company has a quick ratio of 5.50, a current ratio of 6.57 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05.

Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ:TSEM - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, August 4th. The semiconductor company reported $0.41 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.47 by ($0.06). The company had revenue of $372.06 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $371.63 million. Tower Semiconductor had a net margin of 13.20% and a return on equity of 7.37%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 6.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.53 earnings per share. Tower Semiconductor has set its Q3 2025 guidance at EPS. Sell-side analysts expect that Tower Semiconductor will post 1.67 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Trading of Tower Semiconductor

A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Senvest Management LLC boosted its position in Tower Semiconductor by 0.9% during the second quarter. Senvest Management LLC now owns 8,128,614 shares of the semiconductor company's stock valued at $352,375,000 after acquiring an additional 69,207 shares during the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its position in Tower Semiconductor by 2.4% during the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 4,087,155 shares of the semiconductor company's stock valued at $145,106,000 after acquiring an additional 93,868 shares during the last quarter. Jennison Associates LLC boosted its position in Tower Semiconductor by 2.3% during the first quarter. Jennison Associates LLC now owns 2,546,357 shares of the semiconductor company's stock valued at $90,803,000 after acquiring an additional 57,544 shares during the last quarter. Meitav Investment House Ltd. boosted its position in Tower Semiconductor by 1.0% during the second quarter. Meitav Investment House Ltd. now owns 2,242,514 shares of the semiconductor company's stock valued at $97,247,000 after acquiring an additional 22,873 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Wellington Management Group LLP boosted its position in shares of Tower Semiconductor by 12.2% during the 1st quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 2,240,229 shares of the semiconductor company's stock worth $79,887,000 after purchasing an additional 243,267 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 70.51% of the company's stock.

Tower Semiconductor Company Profile

Tower Semiconductor Ltd., an independent semiconductor foundry, focus on specialty process technologies to manufacture analog intensive mixed-signal semiconductor devices in Israel, the United States, Japan, Europe, and internationally. It provides various customizable process technologies, including SiGe, BiCMOS, mixed signal/CMOS, RF CMOS, CMOS image sensor, integrated power management, and MEMS.

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