Keysight Technologies - KEYS Stock Forecast, Price & News

13 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Keysight Technologies in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" KEYS shares.
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13 brokers have issued 12 month target prices for Keysight Technologies' stock. Their KEYS share price forecasts range from $170.00 to $225.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $196.23 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 26.1% from the stock's current price.
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Keysight Technologies' stock was trading at $206.51 at the start of the year. Since then, KEYS shares have decreased by 24.7% and is now trading at $155.56.
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Keysight Technologies saw a decrease in short interest in the month of August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,680,000 shares, a decrease of 11.0% from the July 31st total of 3,010,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 857,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.1 days. Approximately 1.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, November 28th 2022.
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Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:KEYS) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August, 17th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $1.90 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.66 by $0.24. The scientific and technical instruments company earned $1.38 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.35 billion. Keysight Technologies had a net margin of 21.00% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 32.13%. The company's revenue was up 10.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.46 EPS.
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Keysight Technologies announced that its board has authorized a share buyback plan on Monday, November 22nd 2021, which allows the company to repurchase $1,200,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 3.3% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Keysight Technologies updated its fourth quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Wednesday, September, 14th. The company provided EPS guidance of $1.94-$2.00 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.89. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.38 billion-$1.40 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.38 billion.

364 employees have rated Keysight Technologies Chief Executive Officer Ron Nersesian on Glassdoor.com. Ron Nersesian has an approval rating of 97% among the company's employees. This puts Ron Nersesian in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Keysight Technologies trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "KEYS."

Keysight Technologies' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (4.40%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (3.11%), Mackenzie Financial Corp (2.31%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2.08%), Northern Trust Corp (1.25%) and Legal & General Group Plc (1.07%). Insiders that own company stock include Huei Sin Ee, Ingrid A Estrada, James Cullen, Jeffrey K Li, John C Skinner, John Page, Kevin A Stephens, Mark Adam Wallace, Neil Dougherty, Richard P Hamada, Ronald S Nersesian, Satish Dhanasekaran and Soon Chai Gooi.
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One share of KEYS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $155.56.

Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) has a market capitalization of $27.81 billion and generates $4.94 billion in revenue each year. The scientific and technical instruments company earns $894 million in net income (profit) each year or $6.04 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 14,300 workers across the globe.

Keysight Technologies' mailing address is 1400 FOUNTAINGROVE PARKWAY, SANTA ROSA CA, 95403. The official website for the company is www.keysight.com. The scientific and technical instruments company can be reached via phone at (800) 829-4444, via email at investor.relations@keysight.com, or via fax at 800-829-4433.