Trust Investment Advisors Sells 336 Shares of Keysight Technologies Inc. $KEYS

Trust Investment Advisors trimmed its position in shares of Keysight Technologies Inc. (NYSE:KEYS) by 7.7% during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 4,025 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock after selling 336 shares during the quarter. Trust Investment Advisors’ holdings in Keysight Technologies were worth $660,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of the company. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Keysight Technologies by 0.5% during the 1st quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 20,969,511 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $3,140,604,000 after buying an additional 95,876 shares during the period. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD lifted its holdings in shares of Keysight Technologies by 16.6% during the 1st quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 18,790,100 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $2,814,195,000 after buying an additional 2,675,148 shares during the period. Boston Partners lifted its holdings in shares of Keysight Technologies by 7.7% during the 1st quarter. Boston Partners now owns 4,263,417 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $636,854,000 after buying an additional 305,143 shares during the period. T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Keysight Technologies by 1.0% during the 1st quarter. T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. now owns 3,317,700 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $496,892,000 after buying an additional 33,818 shares during the period. Finally, Invesco Ltd. lifted its holdings in shares of Keysight Technologies by 2.4% during the 1st quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 2,273,896 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $340,561,000 after buying an additional 53,846 shares during the period. 84.58% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities research analysts have recently commented on KEYS shares. Barclays reduced their price objective on Keysight Technologies from $200.00 to $195.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, August 20th. Weiss Ratings restated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Keysight Technologies in a research note on Wednesday, October 8th. Wall Street Zen upgraded Keysight Technologies from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, October 18th. Jefferies Financial Group started coverage on Keysight Technologies in a research note on Monday. They issued a “hold” rating and a $180.00 price objective for the company. Finally, Bank of America upped their price objective on Keysight Technologies from $175.00 to $179.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, August 20th. Six analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and four have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $186.56.

Keysight Technologies Trading Down 0.9%

Shares of KEYS stock opened at $168.02 on Tuesday. Keysight Technologies Inc. has a 52-week low of $121.43 and a 52-week high of $186.20. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.45, a quick ratio of 2.94 and a current ratio of 3.59. The firm has a market capitalization of $28.88 billion, a PE ratio of 53.51, a PEG ratio of 2.36 and a beta of 1.18. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $168.78 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $161.60.

Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August 19th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $1.72 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.67 by $0.05. Keysight Technologies had a return on equity of 19.53% and a net margin of 10.36%.The business had revenue of $1.35 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.32 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $1.57 EPS. Keysight Technologies’s revenue for the quarter was up 11.1% compared to the same quarter last year. Keysight Technologies has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 1.790-1.85 EPS. FY 2025 guidance at 7.090-7.090 EPS. On average, analysts predict that Keysight Technologies Inc. will post 6.32 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Keysight Technologies

In other news, SVP Ingrid A. Estrada sold 2,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, September 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $173.98, for a total transaction of $347,960.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president owned 106,590 shares in the company, valued at $18,544,528.20. This trade represents a 1.84% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. 0.61% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

About Keysight Technologies

Keysight Technologies, Inc provides electronic design and test solutions to commercial communications, networking, aerospace, defense and government, automotive, energy, semiconductor, electronic, and education industries in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates in two segments, Communications Solutions Group and Electronic Industrial Solutions Group.