Northland Securities Thinks NeoPhotonics’ Stock is Going to Recover


In a report issued on May 20, Tim Savageaux from Northland Securities maintained a Buy rating on NeoPhotonics (NPTN), with a price target of $8.50. The company’s shares closed yesterday at $4.06, close to its 52-week low of $3.26.

According to TipRanks.com, Savageaux is a 3-star analyst with an average return of 1.5% and a 45.9% success rate. Savageaux covers the Consumer Goods sector, focusing on stocks such as MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc, DASAN Zhone Solutions Inc, and Applied Optoelectronics.

The word on The Street in general, suggests a Moderate Buy analyst consensus rating for NeoPhotonics with a $7 average price target, representing a 72.4% upside. In a report issued on May 17, Rosenblatt Securities also maintained a Buy rating on the stock.

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Based on NeoPhotonics’ latest earnings release for the quarter ending March 31, the company reported a quarterly GAAP net loss of $14.09 million. In comparison, last year the company had a GAAP net loss of $18.25 million.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 25 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is neutral on the stock. Earlier this month, Chiyue Cheung, the COO of NPTN sold 12,000 shares for a total of $69,360.

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NeoPhotonics Corp. engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive communications networks. Its product portfolio includes pluggable coherent modules, coherent-components, 100G/400G client transceivers, optical switching, high speed ICs, 100G / 400G laser devices and light engines, passive components, network monitoring and control, and 10G and low rate components. The company was founded on October 31, 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

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