Coherent Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:COHR)

Coherent trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "COHR."

Coherent declared that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback plan on Thursday, February 8th 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $100,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Coherent, Inc. (NASDAQ:COHR) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July, 30th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $1.33 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.05 by $0.28. The scientific and technical instruments company earned $339.17 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $348.61 million. Coherent had a return on equity of 13.38% and a net margin of 8.12%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 29.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company earned $3.51 earnings per share. View Coherent's Earnings History.

Coherent is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 5th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Coherent.

9 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Coherent's stock. Their predictions range from $125.00 to $175.00. On average, they anticipate Coherent's share price to reach $150.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.9%. View Analyst Price Targets for Coherent.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Coherent in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Coherent.

Press coverage about COHR stock has been trending very negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Coherent earned a media sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the scientific and technical instruments company a news buzz of 8.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is very likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Coherent.

Coherent saw a decrease in short interest during the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,680,000 shares, a decrease of 6.1% from the August 15th total of 1,790,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 340,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.9 days. Approximately 7.1% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Coherent's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Coherent include Waters (WAT), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO.B), PerkinElmer (PKI), Avantor (AVTR), Bruker (BRKR), Horiba (HRIBF), Accelerate Diagnostics (AXDX), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), Quanterix (QTRX), Fluidigm (FLDM), Eyepoint Pharmaceuticals (EYPT), Harvard Bioscience (HBIO), Arrayit (ARYC) and HTG Molecular Diagnostics (HTGM).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Coherent investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Lam Research (LRCX), Adobe (ADBE), Micron Technology (MU), Broadcom (AVGO), Netflix (NFLX), Paypal (PYPL), NetEase (NTES) and Applied Materials (AMAT).

Coherent's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.04%), North Star Investment Management Corp. (0.03%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%). Company insiders that own Coherent stock include Bret Dimarco, Jay T Flatley, Mark Stewart Sobey, Pamela Fletcher, Paul F Sechrist, Sandeep Vij and Stephen A Skaggs. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Coherent.

COHR stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pacer Advisors Inc., State of Alaska Department of Revenue and North Star Investment Management Corp.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Coherent.

Shares of COHR 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 COHR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $152.88.

Coherent has a market capitalization of $3.67 billion and generates $1.90 billion in revenue each year. The scientific and technical instruments company earns $247.35 million in net income (profit) each year or $13.04 on an earnings per share basis. Coherent employs 5,418 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Coherent.

The official website for Coherent is http://www.coherent.com/.

Coherent's mailing address is 5100 Patrick Henry Drive, Santa Clara CA, 95054. The scientific and technical instruments company can be reached via phone at 408-764-4000.