Merrill Lynch Sticks to Their Sell Rating for Xilinx (XLNX)


In a report issued on March 9, Vivek Arya from Merrill Lynch maintained a Sell rating on Xilinx (XLNX), with a price target of $83.00. The company’s shares closed last Monday at $77.61, close to its 52-week low of $73.14.

According to TipRanks.com, Arya is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 14.6% and a 53.0% success rate. Arya covers the Consumer Goods sector, focusing on stocks such as Skyworks Solutions, Applied Materials, and Texas Instruments.

The word on The Street in general, suggests a Moderate Buy analyst consensus rating for Xilinx with a $102.07 average price target.

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Xilinx’s market cap is currently $19.31B and has a P/E ratio of 22.73. The company has a Price to Book ratio of 7.31.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 61 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of XLNX in relation to earlier this year.

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Xilinx, Inc. engages in the design and development of programmable logic semiconductor devices and the related software design tools. It also provides design services, customer training, field engineering, and technical support.

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