Keysight Technologies Inc (NYSE: KEYS) – Time For Strategy Change?

Keysight Technologies Inc (NYSE:KEYS) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.11M but it saw 830142 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 26.31B USD, the company’s current market price of $152.24 came rising about 1.80 while comparing to the previous closing price of $149.55. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $186.20 and as low as $119.72.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Keysight Technologies Inc (KEYS) gives us an average price of $141.31, while its current price level is -18.24% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 27.16% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $146.77 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $155.13. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.87% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 3.34%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 61.36 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the JP Morgan which upgraded the stock as “Overweight” in its note to investors issued on December 16, 2024, recommending a price target of between $170 and $200 for it. Barclays upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Overweight” from “Equal Weight” on November 04, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $158-$180. Vertical Research issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $175.

Over the week, KEYS’s stock price is moving 4.60% up while it is 18.97% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -5.22% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 1.09%.

Currently, Keysight Technologies Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 173.10M with 0.58% of that held by the insiders while 94.99% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 8.53% and return on equity (ROE) at 12.22%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 43.59 while having a 19.27 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.09. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 5.08 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 5.24. Its return on asset (ROA) is 6.62% on average.