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Needham analyst Rajvindra Gill maintained a Buy rating on Microchip (MCHP) today and set a price target of $96.00. The company’s shares closed last Wednesday at $78.80.
According to TipRanks.com, Gill is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 5.6% and a 49.4% success rate. Gill covers the Consumer Goods sector, focusing on stocks such as Sequans Communications S A, Everspin Technologies, and Smart Global Holdings.
The word on The Street in general, suggests a Strong Buy analyst consensus rating for Microchip with a $108.33 average price target, a 43.7% upside from current levels. In a report issued on March 31, KeyBanc also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $85.00 price target.
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Based on Microchip’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending December 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $1.29 billion and net profit of $311 million. In comparison, last year the company earned revenue of $1.37 billion and had a net profit of $49.2 million.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 72 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.
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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.
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