NASDAQ:PLXSPlexus Stock Price, Forecast & News

Plexus' stock was trading at $60.68 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, PLXS stock has decreased by 1.5% and is now trading at $59.79. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Plexus in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Plexus.

Plexus is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 15th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Plexus.

Plexus Corp. (NASDAQ:PLXS) released its earnings results on Wednesday, January, 22nd. The technology company reported $1.00 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.93 by $0.07. The technology company had revenue of $852.40 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $803.38 million. Plexus had a return on equity of 12.26% and a net margin of 3.61%. The company's revenue was up 11.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.91 earnings per share. View Plexus' earnings history.

Plexus updated its second quarter 2020 IntraDay earnings guidance on Tuesday, March, 24th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $790 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $756.34 million.

4 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Plexus' shares. Their forecasts range from $67.00 to $84.00. On average, they expect Plexus' stock price to reach $78.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 30.5% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Plexus.

News coverage about PLXS stock has trended very negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring 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. Plexus earned a daily sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the technology company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutPlexus.

Plexus saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 1,090,500 shares, an increase of 26.0% from the February 27th total of 865,500 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 170,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.4 days. Approximately 3.8% of the company's stock are sold short. View Plexus' Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Plexus investors own include Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Berry Global Group (BERY), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intel (INTC), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Pfizer (PFE), Twitter (TWTR), First Solar (FSLR) and Gilead Sciences (GILD).

Plexus trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PLXS."

Plexus' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.09%). Company insiders that own Plexus stock include Angelo Michael Ninivaggi Jr, David J Drury, Dean A Foate, Michael V Schrock, Patrick John Jermain, Peter Kelly, Ralf R Boer, Ronnie Darroch, Scott Theune, Stephen P Cortinovis, Steven J Frisch, Todd P Kelsey and Yong Jin Lim. View institutional ownership trends for Plexus.

PLXS stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue. View insider buying and selling activity for Plexus.

Shares of PLXS 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 PLXS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $59.79.

Plexus has a market capitalization of $1.75 billion and generates $3.16 billion in revenue each year. The technology company earns $108.62 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.43 on an earnings per share basis. Plexus employs 19,000 workers across the globe. View additional information about Plexus.

The official website for Plexus is http://www.plexus.com/.

Plexus' mailing address is One Plexus Way, Neenah WI, 54957. The technology company can be reached via phone at 920-969-6000 or via email at [email protected]