Advanced Energy Industries (NASDAQ:AEIS) Updates Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Advanced Energy Industries (NASDAQ:AEIS) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 0.780-1.280 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 0.970. The company issued revenue guidance of $372.0 million-$412.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $381.5 million.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research firms have weighed in on AEIS. TD Cowen lowered their price target on Advanced Energy Industries from $120.00 to $118.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, October 31st. Citigroup raised Advanced Energy Industries from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and boosted their price target for the stock from $110.00 to $138.00 in a research report on Monday, January 6th. Wells Fargo & Company lowered their price target on Advanced Energy Industries from $115.00 to $110.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday. StockNews.com upgraded Advanced Energy Industries from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, November 4th. Finally, Bank of America upgraded Advanced Energy Industries from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $140.00 target price for the company in a research note on Monday, December 16th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, six have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $126.56.

Advanced Energy Industries Stock Performance

AEIS traded up $9.43 during trading on Thursday, hitting $120.60. The stock had a trading volume of 282,047 shares, compared to its average volume of 254,659. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $117.11 and a 200-day moving average price of $110.41. The firm has a market cap of $4.54 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 105.83, a P/E/G ratio of 3.60 and a beta of 1.45. Advanced Energy Industries has a one year low of $89.11 and a one year high of $130.50. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48, a current ratio of 4.62 and a quick ratio of 3.32.

Advanced Energy Industries (NASDAQ:AEIS) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 12th. The electronics maker reported $1.06 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.09 by ($0.03). Advanced Energy Industries had a net margin of 2.91% and a return on equity of 9.02%. As a group, research analysts predict that Advanced Energy Industries will post 2.52 EPS for the current year.

Advanced Energy Industries Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 7th. Shareholders of record on Monday, February 24th will be issued a $0.10 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, February 24th. This represents a $0.40 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.33%. Advanced Energy Industries’s dividend payout ratio is presently 35.09%.

Insider Buying and Selling at Advanced Energy Industries

In other Advanced Energy Industries news, Director Lanesha Minnix sold 1,000 shares of Advanced Energy Industries stock in a transaction on Tuesday, November 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $111.72, for a total value of $111,720.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 5,092 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $568,878.24. The trade was a 16.41 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Insiders own 2.00% of the company’s stock.

Advanced Energy Industries Company Profile

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc provides precision power conversion, measurement, and control solutions in the United States and internationally. The company's plasma power products offer solutions to enable innovation for semiconductor and thin film plasma processes, such as dry etch and deposition.