NASDAQ:CAMTCamtek Stock Price, Forecast & News

Camtek's stock was trading at $9.17 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, CAMT stock has increased by 40.6% and is now trading at $12.89. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Camtek in the last year. There are currently 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Camtek.

Camtek is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 4th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Camtek.

Camtek LTD. (NASDAQ:CAMT) released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, May, 11th. The semiconductor company reported $0.09 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.11 by $0.02. The semiconductor company earned $30.18 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $30.05 million. Camtek had a return on equity of 13.14% and a net margin of 14.39%. View Camtek's earnings history.

Camtek announced an annual dividend on Tuesday, August 6th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, August 21st will be paid a dividend of $0.17 per share on Wednesday, September 4th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.9%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, August 20th. This is a boost from Camtek's previous annual dividend of $0.14. View Camtek's dividend history.

Camtek updated its second quarter 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Monday, May, 11th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $36-38 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $35.3 million.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Camtek's shares. Their forecasts range from $14.00 to $15.00. On average, they anticipate Camtek's stock price to reach $14.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 13.8% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Camtek.

News headlines about CAMT stock have trended very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Camtek earned a coverage optimism score of -3.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the semiconductor company a news buzz of 9.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutCamtek.

Camtek saw a increase in short interest in April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 224,400 shares, an increase of 5.0% from the April 15th total of 213,700 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 145,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.5 days. Currently, 1.1% of the company's stock are short sold. View Camtek's Current Options Chain.

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Camtek trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "CAMT."

Camtek's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Federated Hermes Inc. (5.77%), Phoenix Holdings Ltd. (3.39%), Acadian Asset Management LLC (3.33%), Wellington Management Group LLP (2.54%), Meitav Dash Investments Ltd. (0.87%) and The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (0.77%).

CAMT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wellington Management Group LLP, First Wilshire Securities Management Inc., UBS Group AG, Two Sigma Advisers LP, and State of Tennessee Treasury Department.

CAMT stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company , Federated Hermes Inc., Phoenix Holdings Ltd., Meitav Dash Investments Ltd., State Street Corp, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Morgan Stanley, and Jane Street Group LLC.

Shares of CAMT can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of CAMT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $12.89.

Camtek has a market capitalization of $499.10 million and generates $134.02 million in revenue each year. The semiconductor company earns $21.99 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.54 on an earnings per share basis.

The official website for Camtek is www.camtek.com.

Camtek's mailing address is INDUSTRIAL ZONE PO BOX 544, MIGDAL HAEMEK L3, 23105. The semiconductor company can be reached via phone at 972-4604-8100 or via email at [email protected]