NASDAQ:NVMI - Nova Measuring Instruments Stock Price, Forecast & News

Nova Measuring Instruments trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "NVMI."

Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. (NASDAQ:NVMI) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 7th. The semiconductor company reported $0.40 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.23 by $0.17. The semiconductor company earned $52.51 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $50.73 million. Nova Measuring Instruments had a net margin of 16.99% and a return on equity of 14.97%. The company's revenue was down 17.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.52 earnings per share. View Nova Measuring Instruments' Earnings History.

Nova Measuring Instruments is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 13th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Nova Measuring Instruments.

Nova Measuring Instruments will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 13th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Nova Measuring Instruments issued an update on its fourth quarter 2019 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Monday, November, 25th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.40-0.50 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.37. The company issued revenue guidance of $$56-62 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $$57.2 million.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Nova Measuring Instruments' stock. Their forecasts range from $35.00 to $44.00. On average, they expect Nova Measuring Instruments' stock price to reach $38.50 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.7%. View Analyst Price Targets for Nova Measuring Instruments.

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

Press coverage about NVMI stock has been trending somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing 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 closest to five being the most favorable. Nova Measuring Instruments earned a media sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the semiconductor company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Nova Measuring Instruments.

Nova Measuring Instruments saw a decline in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 30,600 shares, a decline of 48.1% from the December 31st total of 59,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 68,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.5 days. Approximately 0.1% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Nova Measuring Instruments' Current Options Chain.

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Nova Measuring Instruments' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd. (4.84%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.34%) and Eqis Capital Management Inc. (0.03%).

NVMI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd. and Eqis Capital Management Inc..

NVMI stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Calamos Advisors LLC.

Shares of NVMI 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 NVMI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $39.97.

Nova Measuring Instruments has a market capitalization of $1.12 billion and generates $251.13 million in revenue each year. The semiconductor company earns $54.38 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.96 on an earnings per share basis. Nova Measuring Instruments employs 662 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Nova Measuring Instruments.

The official website for Nova Measuring Instruments is http://www.novami.com/.

Nova Measuring Instruments' mailing address is Weizmann Science Park Einstein St. Building 22 2nd Floor, Ness-Ziona L3, 7610201. The semiconductor company can be reached via phone at 972-73-229-5833 or via email at [email protected]