Alpha and Omega Semiconductor - AOSL Stock Forecast, Price & News

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited designs, develops, and supplies power semiconductor products for computing, consumer electronics, communication, and industrial applications in Hong Kong, China, South Korea, the United States, and internationally. It offers power discrete products, including metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET), SRFETs, XSFET, electrostatic discharge, protected MOSFETs, high and mid-voltage MOSFETs, and insulated gate bipolar transistors for use in smart phone chargers, battery packs, notebooks, desktop and servers, data centers, base stations, graphics card, game boxes, TVs, AC adapters, power supplies, motor control, power tools, e-vehicles, white goods and industrial motor drives, UPS systems, solar inverters, and industrial welding. The company also provides power ICs that deliver power, as well as control and regulate the power management variables, such as the flow of current and level of voltage. Its power ICs are used in flat panel displays, TVs, Notebooks, graphic cards, servers, DVD/Blu-Ray players, set-top boxes, and networking equipment. In addition, the company offers aMOS5 MOSFET for quick charger, adapter, PC power, server, industrial power, telecom, and datacenter applications; and Transient Voltage Suppressors for laptops, televisions, and other electronic devices. Further, it provides EZBuck regulators; SOA MOSFET for hot swap applications; RigidCSP for battery management; and Type-C power delivery protection switches. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Trading Down 1.5 %

Shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor stock traded down $0.61 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $40.20. The company's stock had a trading volume of 490 shares, compared to its average volume of 305,504. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $36.64 and a 200-day moving average of $44.03. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07, a quick ratio of 1.88 and a current ratio of 2.60. The stock has a market cap of $1.09 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 2.55 and a beta of 2.50. Alpha and Omega Semiconductor has a twelve month low of $24.32 and a twelve month high of $69.99.

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (NASDAQ:AOSL - Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 10th. The semiconductor company reported $0.95 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.86 by $0.09. The business had revenue of $193.96 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $190.00 million. Alpha and Omega Semiconductor had a net margin of 58.28% and a return on equity of 13.52%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 9.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.76 earnings per share. Research analysts forecast that Alpha and Omega Semiconductor will post 3.67 EPS for the current year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several research analysts have recently weighed in on AOSL shares. StockNews.com cut Alpha and Omega Semiconductor from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a report on Friday, May 6th. Benchmark cut their target price on Alpha and Omega Semiconductor from $70.00 to $60.00 and set a "buy" rating for the company in a research note on Thursday. B. Riley raised their price objective on shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor from $42.00 to $45.00 in a research report on Thursday. Finally, TheStreet lowered shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor from a "b-" rating to a "c+" rating in a report on Wednesday, June 29th.

Insider Activity

In related news, EVP Bing Xue sold 1,492 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, June 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $34.38, for a total transaction of $51,294.96. Following the transaction, the executive vice president now owns 63,408 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $2,179,967.04. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 4,973 shares of company stock valued at $180,227. 19.90% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.