Needham Releases a Buy Rating on NXP Semiconductors (NXPI)


In a report released today, Rajvindra Gill from Needham assigned a Buy rating to NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), with a price target of $223.00. The company’s shares closed last Tuesday at $177.21, close to its 52-week high of $182.55.

According to TipRanks.com, Gill is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 12.6% and a 64.3% success rate. Gill covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Sequans Communications S A, Everspin Technologies, and Smart Global Holdings.

Currently, the analyst consensus on NXP Semiconductors is a Moderate Buy with an average price target of $185.53, representing a 3.1% upside. In a report issued on January 19, Raymond James also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $210.00 price target.

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Based on NXP Semiconductors’ latest earnings release for the quarter ending September 30, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $2.27 billion and GAAP net loss of $22 million. In comparison, last year the company earned revenue of $2.27 billion and had a net profit of $109 million.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 35 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 NXPI in relation to earlier this year.

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NXP Semiconductors NV is a holding company, which engages in the provision of semiconductor solutions. It focuses on high performance mixed signal (HMPS), which delivers high performance mixed signal solutions to its customers to satisfy their system and sub-systems needs across the application areas such as automotive, identification, mobile, consumer, computing, wireless infrastructure, lighting and industrial, and software solutions for mobile phones. Its products include Arm Processors, Arm MCUs, and Power Architecture. The company was founded on August 2, 2006 and is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

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