MKS Instruments Received its Third Buy in a Row


After Stifel Nicolaus and D.A. Davidson gave MKS Instruments (NASDAQ: MKSI) a Buy rating last month, the company received another Buy, this time from Benchmark Co. Analyst Mark Miller maintained a Buy rating on MKS Instruments (NASDAQ: MKSI) today and set a price target of $140. The company’s shares closed yesterday at $96.

According to TipRanks.com, Miller is a top 100 analyst with an average return of 26.5% and a 70.4% success rate. Miller covers the Consumer Goods sector, focusing on stocks such as IPG Photonics Corporation, Axcelis Technologies, and Nanometrics Inc.

MKS Instruments has an analyst consensus of Strong Buy, with a price target consensus of $140.

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The company has a one-year high of $128.28 and a one-year low of $75.90. Currently, MKS Instruments has an average volume of 727.5K.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 47 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock.

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MKS Instruments, Inc. engages in the provision of instruments, subsystems, and process control solutions to measure, control, power, monitor, and analyze parameters of manufacturing processes. It operates through the Vacuum and Analysis; and Light and Motion segments.

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