BMO Capital analyst Ambrish Srivastava maintained a Buy rating on Microchip (MCHP) today and set a price target of $130.00. The company’s shares closed last Thursday at $118.38, close to its 52-week high of $118.63.
According to TipRanks.com, Srivastava is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 14.5% and a 79.9% success rate. Srivastava covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Dialog Semiconductor, Skyworks Solutions, and Analog Devices.
Microchip has an analyst consensus of Strong Buy, with a price target consensus of $133.13, which is a 15.5% upside from current levels. In a report released today, KeyBanc also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $140.00 price target.
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Based on Microchip’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending June 30, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $1.31 billion and net profit of $124 million. In comparison, last year the company earned revenue of $1.32 billion and had a net profit of $50.7 million.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 78 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is positive on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders buying their shares of MCHP in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in August 2020, Day L B, a Director at MCHP bought 1,191 shares for a total of $119,410.
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Microchip Technology, Inc. engages in the provision of semiconductor products. It operates through the Semiconductor Products and Technology Licensing segments. The Semiconductor Products segment involves in the designing, developing, manufacturing, and marketing microcontrollers, development tools and analog, interface, mixed signal, connectivity devices, and timing products. The Technology Licensing segment offers license fees and royalties associated with technology licenses for the use of SuperFlash embedded flash and Smartbits one time programmable technologies. The company was founded on February 14, 1989 and is headquartered in Chandler, AZ.
