NYSE:AUO - AU Optronics Stock Price, Price Target & More

AU Optronics trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AUO."

AU Optronics (NYSE:AUO) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April, 26th. The semiconductor company reported $0.15 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.04 by $0.11. The semiconductor company had revenue of $2.56 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.48 billion. AU Optronics had a net margin of 8.28% and a return on equity of 12.28%. View AU Optronics' Earnings History.

AU Optronics is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July, 25th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for AU Optronics.

AU Optronics saw a decline in short interest in May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 33,244,832 shares, a decline of 9.6% from the April 30th total of 36,782,329 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,366,052 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 24.3 days. View AU Optronics' Current Options Chain.

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Press coverage about AUO stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. AU Optronics earned a daily sentiment score of 0.05 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news stories about the semiconductor company an impact score of 46.20 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

AU Optronics' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.60%), Aperio Group LLC (0.36%), Northern Trust Corp (0.20%), Millennium Management LLC (0.18%), Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. (0.11%) and Wells Fargo & Company MN (0.07%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for AU Optronics.

AUO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Millennium Management LLC and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. View Insider Buying and Selling for AU Optronics.

AUO stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Aperio Group LLC, Northern Trust Corp, Jane Street Group LLC, Wells Fargo & Company MN, Banco de Sabadell S.A, Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc., BlackRock Inc. and Guggenheim Capital LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for AU Optronics.

Shares of AUO 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 AUO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $4.23.

AU Optronics has a market capitalization of $4.15 billion and generates $11.51 billion in revenue each year. The semiconductor company earns $1.40 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.13 on an earnings per share basis. AU Optronics employs 57,579 workers across the globe.

AU Optronics' mailing address is 1 Li-Hsin Road 2Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu F5, 30078. The semiconductor company can be reached via phone at 886-3500-8800 or via email at [email protected]