Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR) stock fell -1.27% on Monday to $32.00 against a previous-day closing price of $32.41. With 2.08 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 3.6 million shares. During the session, the Scientific & Technical Instruments company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $32.51 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $31.73. The 52-week range on COHR shows that it touched its highest point at $60.46 and its lowest point at $26.29 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $41.81. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.61.
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Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of COHR was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.53%, but this was down by -4.31% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -41.68% while six-month performance fell -7.17%. The stock lost -23.94% in the past year, while it has lost -8.83% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for COHR yields -2.92 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.76. For the next quarter, that number is 0.14. This implies an EPS growth rate of -302.60% for this year and 106.90% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -3.37% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -31.90%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 150.40 million COHR shares are outstanding with a float of 148.00 million shares on hand for trading. On Aug 30, 2023, short shares totaled 5.12 million, which was 3.40% higher than short shares on Jul 30, 2023. In addition to Dr. Vincent D. Mattera Jr., Ph.D. as the firm’s Board Chair & CEO, Mr. Walter Robert Bashaw II serves as its Pres.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 91.57% of COHR’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have majority control over the company. Other institutions hold 50.38% of COHR, in contrast to 34.96% held by mutual funds. Shares owned by individuals account for 1.61%. As the largest shareholder in COHR with 13.25% of the stake, Dodge & Cox holds 19,921,620 shares worth 19,921,620. A second-largest stockholder of COHR, The Vanguard Group, Inc., holds 13,770,608 shares, controlling over 9.16% of the firm’s shares. BlackRock Fund Advisors is the third largest shareholder in COHR, holding 10,709,471 shares or 7.12% stake. With a 7.54% stake in COHR, the Dodge & Cox Stock Fund is the largest stakeholder. A total of 11,333,100 shares are owned by the mutual fund manager. The iShares Core S&P Mid Cap ETF, which owns about 2.99% of COHR stock, is the second-largest Mutual Fund holder. It holds 4,499,402 shares valued at 169.31 million. Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF holds 2.91% of the stake in COHR, owning 4,376,832 shares worth 164.7 million.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on Jun 29, 2023, COHR reported revenue of $886.96M and operating income of $114.25M. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $97.48M and diluted EPS was $0.23.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for COHR since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With COHR analysts setting a high price target of $63.00 and a low target of $35.00, the average target price over the next 12 months is $41.63. Based on these targets, COHR could surge 96.88% to reach the target high and rise by 9.38% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 30.09% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded COHR stock several times over the past three months with 1 Buys and 18 Sells. In these transactions, 30,000 shares were bought while 93,896 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has increased to 7 while that of sell transactions has risen to 33 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 53,983 while 158,853 shares were sold.
