Keysight Technologies Inc. (NYSE:KEYS – Get Free Report) SVP Ingrid Estrada sold 2,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, August 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $314.66, for a total transaction of $629,320.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president directly owned 103,861 shares in the company, valued at $32,680,902.26. This represents a 1.89% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.
Keysight Technologies Stock Up 0.7%
Shares of Keysight Technologies stock opened at $322.36 on Thursday. The company has a current ratio of 2.02, a quick ratio of 1.62 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.28. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $330.77 and its 200-day simple moving average is $317.98. The stock has a market capitalization of $55.09 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 44.28, a PEG ratio of 1.82 and a beta of 1.22. Keysight Technologies Inc. has a twelve month low of $158.79 and a twelve month high of $374.96.
Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August 18th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $3.07 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.48 by $0.59. The business had revenue of $1.85 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.75 billion. Keysight Technologies had a return on equity of 24.34% and a net margin of 19.08%.The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 36.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.72 EPS. Keysight Technologies has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 3.340-3.400 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 11.460-11.460 EPS. Equities research analysts forecast that Keysight Technologies Inc. will post 9.03 earnings per share for the current year.
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Institutional Investors Weigh In On Keysight Technologies
Several institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of KEYS. California State Teachers Retirement System boosted its holdings in shares of Keysight Technologies by 34,044.8% in the second quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System now owns 92,234,343 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $32,288,476,000 after acquiring an additional 91,964,216 shares in the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Keysight Technologies during the second quarter valued at approximately $7,030,806,000. Norges Bank bought a new stake in Keysight Technologies during the fourth quarter worth approximately $435,542,000. Focus Partners Wealth raised its holdings in Keysight Technologies by 3,941.3% during the fourth quarter. Focus Partners Wealth now owns 1,406,286 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $285,743,000 after purchasing an additional 1,371,488 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Legal & General Group Plc acquired a new stake in Keysight Technologies in the second quarter worth approximately $464,017,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 84.58% of the company’s stock.
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies is a global provider of electronic design, test, measurement and optimization solutions for communications, electronics and related industries. The company was formed as a corporate spin-off from Agilent Technologies in 2014; its origins trace back to the electronic measurement business that was part of Hewlett‑Packard before Agilent. Keysight develops hardware and software used throughout the product development lifecycle, from design and simulation to prototype validation and manufacturing test.
Keysight’s product portfolio includes electronic test and measurement instruments such as oscilloscopes, network and spectrum analyzers, signal generators, vector network analyzers and modular PXI-based systems, together with software platforms for simulation, automated test and data analysis.
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