Keysight Technologies Inc. $KEYS Holdings Boosted by Paradigm Asset Management Co. LLC

Paradigm Asset Management Co. LLC increased its holdings in shares of Keysight Technologies Inc. (NYSE:KEYS) by 103.6% during the second quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 11,200 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock after purchasing an additional 5,700 shares during the quarter. Paradigm Asset Management Co. LLC’s holdings in Keysight Technologies were worth $1,835,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of KEYS. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of Keysight Technologies by 0.5% during the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 20,969,511 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $3,140,604,000 after purchasing an additional 95,876 shares during the period. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD increased its position in Keysight Technologies by 16.6% during the first quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 18,790,100 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $2,814,195,000 after buying an additional 2,675,148 shares during the last quarter. Boston Partners raised its holdings in Keysight Technologies by 7.7% during the first 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 in the last quarter. T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. lifted its position in shares of Keysight Technologies by 1.0% in the first quarter. T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. now owns 3,317,700 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $496,892,000 after buying an additional 33,818 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Invesco Ltd. lifted its position in shares of Keysight Technologies by 2.4% in the first quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 2,273,896 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $340,561,000 after buying an additional 53,846 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 84.58% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research analysts have recently commented on the company. Jefferies Financial Group assumed coverage on Keysight Technologies in a report on Monday, October 27th. They set a “hold” rating and a $180.00 price objective on the stock. Bank of America upped their target price on Keysight Technologies from $175.00 to $179.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 20th. Weiss Ratings reissued a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Keysight Technologies in a research report on Wednesday, October 8th. Barclays reduced their price objective on shares of Keysight Technologies from $200.00 to $195.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, August 20th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their target price on shares of Keysight Technologies from $177.00 to $200.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, July 17th. Six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and four have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $186.56.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Keysight Technologies news, SVP Ingrid A. Estrada sold 2,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, September 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $173.98, for a total value of $347,960.00. Following the sale, the senior vice president owned 106,590 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $18,544,528.20. The trade was a 1.84% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. 0.61% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Keysight Technologies Stock Down 2.4%

Shares of KEYS opened at $180.64 on Friday. Keysight Technologies Inc. has a 52 week low of $121.43 and a 52 week high of $187.67. 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 $31.04 billion, a P/E ratio of 57.53, a P/E/G ratio of 2.38 and a beta of 1.22. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $171.60 and a 200-day simple moving average of $164.22.

Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August 19th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $1.72 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.67 by $0.05. The company had revenue of $1.35 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.32 billion. Keysight Technologies had a return on equity of 19.53% and a net margin of 10.36%.Keysight Technologies’s revenue for the quarter was up 11.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $1.57 EPS. 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, equities research analysts expect that Keysight Technologies Inc. will post 6.32 earnings per share for the current year.

Keysight Technologies Company Profile

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.