NASDAQ:HLIT - Harmonic Stock Price, Forecast & News

Harmonic trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "HLIT."

Harmonic Inc (NASDAQ:HLIT) announced its earnings results on Monday, October, 28th. The communications equipment provider reported $0.21 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.03. The communications equipment provider earned $115.73 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $114.88 million. Harmonic had a negative net margin of 2.07% and a positive return on equity of 6.36%. View Harmonic's Earnings History.

Harmonic is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, February 3rd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Harmonic.

Harmonic will be holding an earnings conference call on Monday, February 3rd at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Harmonic issued an update on its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Monday, October, 28th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $0.03-0.11 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $0.04. The company issued revenue guidance of $108-118 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $105.76 million.

4 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for Harmonic's stock. Their forecasts range from $9.00 to $10.00. On average, they expect Harmonic's stock price to reach $9.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 14.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Harmonic.

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

News stories about HLIT stock have trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Harmonic earned a media sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the communications equipment provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Harmonic.

Harmonic saw a decline in short interest in the month of December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 6,560,000 shares, a decline of 5.6% from the November 28th total of 6,950,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 669,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 9.8 days. Approximately 7.6% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Harmonic's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Harmonic include Cisco Systems (CSCO), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Motorola Solutions (MSI), Palo Alto Networks (PANW), F5 Networks (FFIV), Juniper Networks (JNPR), Ciena (CIEN), ViaSat (VSAT), Echostar (SATS), Finisar (FNSR), InterDigital Wireless (IDCC), Infinera (INFN), Plantronics (PLT), Extreme Networks (EXTR) and Comtech Telecomm. (CMTL).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Harmonic investors own include Intelsat (I), Zynga (ZNGA), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Fossil Group (FOSL), Transocean (RIG), Bank of America (BAC), Twitter (TWTR), Cypress Semiconductor (CY), AMC Entertainment (AMC) and Tesla (tsla).

Harmonic's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.03%) and AE Wealth Management LLC (0.01%). Company insiders that own Harmonic stock include Floyd E Kvamme, Neven Haltmayer, Nimrod Ben-Natan, Patrick Harshman, Sanjay Kalra, Susan Swenson and William F Reddersen. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Harmonic.

HLIT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Louisiana State Employees Retirement System. Company insiders that have sold Harmonic company stock in the last year include Neven Haltmayer, Nimrod Ben-Natan and Sanjay Kalra. View Insider Buying and Selling for Harmonic.

HLIT stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including AE Wealth Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought Harmonic stock in the last two years include Floyd E Kvamme and William F Reddersen. View Insider Buying and Selling for Harmonic.

Shares of HLIT 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 HLIT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $8.30.

Harmonic has a market capitalization of $749.37 million and generates $403.56 million in revenue each year. The communications equipment provider earns $-21,030,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.03 on an earnings per share basis. Harmonic employs 1,162 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Harmonic.

The official website for Harmonic is http://www.harmonicinc.com/.

Harmonic's mailing address is 4300 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE CA, 95134. The communications equipment provider can be reached via phone at 408-542-2500 or via email at [email protected]