Keysight Technologies Inc. $KEYS Shares Sold by Securian Asset Management Inc.

Securian Asset Management Inc. lessened its position in Keysight Technologies Inc. (NYSE:KEYS) by 1.1% during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 8,967 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock after selling 100 shares during the quarter. Securian Asset Management Inc.’s holdings in Keysight Technologies were worth $1,469,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in the company. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its position in 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 buying an additional 95,876 shares in the last quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD lifted 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 in the last quarter. Boston Partners lifted its position 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 worth $636,854,000 after buying an additional 305,143 shares in the last quarter. T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. lifted its position in Keysight Technologies by 1.0% during 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 in the last quarter. Finally, Invesco Ltd. lifted its position in Keysight Technologies by 2.4% during 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 in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 84.58% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of brokerages recently commented on KEYS. Morgan Stanley reiterated an “equal weight” rating and set a $180.00 price objective on shares of Keysight Technologies in a research report on Friday, October 10th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their target price on Keysight Technologies from $177.00 to $200.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, July 17th. Bank of America raised their target price on Keysight Technologies from $175.00 to $179.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, August 20th. Barclays cut their target price on 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, Wall Street Zen raised Keysight Technologies from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, October 18th. Six analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and three have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $187.38.

Insider Buying and Selling at Keysight Technologies

In other news, SVP Ingrid A. Estrada sold 2,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, September 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $173.98, for a total value of $347,960.00. Following the completion of the sale, the senior vice president directly owned 106,590 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $18,544,528.20. The trade was a 1.84% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Insiders own 0.61% of the company’s stock.

Keysight Technologies Trading Down 1.7%

KEYS opened at $164.56 on Thursday. Keysight Technologies Inc. has a 12 month low of $121.43 and a 12 month high of $186.20. The stock has a market capitalization of $28.28 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 52.41, a PEG ratio of 2.33 and a beta of 1.18. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.45, a current ratio of 3.59 and a quick ratio of 2.94. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $168.51 and a 200 day moving average price of $160.50.

Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, August 19th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $1.72 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.67 by $0.05. The firm had revenue of $1.35 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations 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% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $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. Sell-side analysts expect that Keysight Technologies Inc. will post 6.32 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

About Keysight Technologies

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.