NASDAQ:OLED - Universal Display Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Universal Display trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "OLED."

Universal Display announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 22nd. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 15th will be given a dividend of $0.10 per share on Friday, March 29th. This represents a $0.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.24%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 14th. This is a boost from Universal Display's previous quarterly dividend of $0.06. View Universal Display's Dividend History.

Universal Display Co. (NASDAQ:OLED) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 21st. The semiconductor company reported $0.40 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.34 by $0.06. The semiconductor company had revenue of $70.14 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $70.18 million. Universal Display had a net margin of 23.78% and a return on equity of 8.85%. The company's revenue was down 39.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.93 EPS. View Universal Display's Earnings History.

Universal Display is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 2nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Universal Display.

Universal Display will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, May 2nd at 5:00 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 8775248416.

Universal Display issued an update on its FY 2019 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 21st. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $325-350 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $341.9 million.

9 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Universal Display's shares. Their predictions range from $115.00 to $175.00. On average, they anticipate Universal Display's share price to reach $146.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 13.5%. View Analyst Price Targets for Universal Display.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Universal Display in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Universal Display.

Press coverage about OLED stock has trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Universal Display earned a daily sentiment score of 1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the semiconductor company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future.

Universal Display saw a decrease in short interest in the month of March. As of March 29th, there was short interest totalling 5,098,706 shares, a decrease of 20.3% from the March 15th total of 6,399,356 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 582,121 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 8.8 days. Currently, 12.1% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Universal Display's Current Options Chain.

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

Universal Display's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Scout Investments Inc. (0.38%), KAMES CAPITAL plc (0.38%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.12%), BKS Advisors LLC (0.03%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.02%) and Nottingham Advisors Inc. (0.01%). Company insiders that own Universal Display stock include C Keith Hartley, Elizabeth H Gemmill, Julia J Brown, Lawrence Lacerte, Leonard Becker, Mauro Premutico, Richard C Elias, Rosemarie B Greco, Sherwin I Seligsohn, Sidney D Rosenblatt and Steven V Abramson. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Universal Display.

OLED stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BKS Advisors LLC, Intl Fcstone Inc., Cambridge Advisors Inc., State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Nottingham Advisors Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Universal Display company stock in the last year include Julia J Brown, Lawrence Lacerte, Mauro Premutico, Richard C Elias and Rosemarie B Greco. View Insider Buying and Selling for Universal Display.

OLED stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Scout Investments Inc., KAMES CAPITAL plc, Virtu Financial LLC, Sciencast Management LP, Cardan Capital Partners LLC, Strs Ohio, NuWave Investment Management LLC and Guidant Wealth Advisors. View Insider Buying and Selling for Universal Display.

Shares of OLED 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of OLED stock can currently be purchased for approximately $168.74.

Universal Display has a market capitalization of $7.95 billion and generates $247.41 million in revenue each year. The semiconductor company earns $58.84 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.24 on an earnings per share basis. Universal Display employs 265 workers across the globe.

The official website for Universal Display is http://www.oled.com.

Universal Display's mailing address is 375 PHILLIPS BOULEVARD, EWING NJ, 08618. The semiconductor company can be reached via phone at 609-671-0980 or via email at [email protected]