Wedbush Securities Inc. Buys Shares of 6,298 Camtek Ltd. $CAMT

Wedbush Securities Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of Camtek Ltd. (NASDAQ:CAMT) in the second quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund purchased 6,298 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock, valued at approximately $533,000.

Other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd purchased a new position in shares of Camtek in the first quarter worth approximately $31,000. Advisors Asset Management Inc. raised its position in Camtek by 61.6% in the first quarter. Advisors Asset Management Inc. now owns 769 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $45,000 after acquiring an additional 293 shares during the period. Optimum Investment Advisors boosted its stake in shares of Camtek by 60.0% during the 2nd quarter. Optimum Investment Advisors now owns 1,200 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $101,000 after acquiring an additional 450 shares during the last quarter. Petrus Trust Company LTA grew its position in shares of Camtek by 12.9% during the 1st quarter. Petrus Trust Company LTA now owns 3,706 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $217,000 after acquiring an additional 422 shares during the period. Finally, State of Wyoming grew its position in shares of Camtek by 111.0% during the 1st quarter. State of Wyoming now owns 4,264 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $250,000 after acquiring an additional 2,243 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 41.93% of the company’s stock.

Camtek Stock Performance

NASDAQ CAMT opened at $104.10 on Wednesday. The company has a quick ratio of 4.38, a current ratio of 5.41 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32. Camtek Ltd. has a twelve month low of $47.41 and a twelve month high of $129.41. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $107.83 and a 200-day moving average price of $89.58. The firm has a market cap of $4.75 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 38.13, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.24 and a beta of 1.46.

Camtek (NASDAQ:CAMT) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Monday, November 10th. The semiconductor company reported $0.82 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.80 by $0.02. Camtek had a return on equity of 23.95% and a net margin of 28.36%.The company had revenue of $125.99 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $125.04 million. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.75 EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 12.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Camtek has set its Q4 2025 guidance at EPS. As a group, equities research analysts predict that Camtek Ltd. will post 2.93 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities analysts recently commented on CAMT shares. Stifel Nicolaus raised their target price on Camtek from $98.00 to $115.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, October 13th. Zacks Research upgraded Camtek to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, August 11th. Northland Securities set a $140.00 price objective on Camtek in a research report on Tuesday, October 7th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Camtek in a research note on Wednesday, October 8th. Finally, B. Riley increased their target price on shares of Camtek from $120.00 to $145.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, October 10th. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and three have given a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $116.80.

About Camtek

Camtek Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells inspection and metrology equipment for semiconductor industry. The company provides Eagle-i, a system that delivers 2D inspection and metrology capabilities; Eagle-AP, which addresses the advanced packaging market using software and hardware technologies that deliver superior 2D and 3D inspection and metrology capabilities on the same platform; and Golden Eagle, a panel inspection and metrology system to address the challenges fanout wafer level packaging applications.