Insider Selling: Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) SVP Sells $183,720.74 in Stock

Keysight Technologies Inc. (NYSE:KEYS) SVP Sung Yoon sold 889 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $206.66, for a total value of $183,720.74. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president owned 16,953 shares in the company, valued at $3,503,506.98. This represents a 4.98% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link.

Keysight Technologies Stock Performance

Shares of KEYS opened at $206.61 on Monday. The company has a market cap of $35.50 billion, a PE ratio of 42.25, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.19 and a beta of 1.18. The company has a current ratio of 2.35, a quick ratio of 1.78 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.43. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $193.34 and a 200-day moving average price of $175.85. Keysight Technologies Inc. has a 12-month low of $121.43 and a 12-month high of $214.58.

Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, November 24th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $1.91 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.83 by $0.08. The company had revenue of $1.42 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.39 billion. Keysight Technologies had a net margin of 15.71% and a return on equity of 19.30%. Keysight Technologies’s revenue for the quarter was up 10.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.65 earnings per share. Keysight Technologies has set its Q1 2026 guidance at 1.950-2.010 EPS. As a group, equities analysts forecast that Keysight Technologies Inc. will post 6.32 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Keysight Technologies declared that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback program on Monday, November 24th that authorizes the company to repurchase $1.50 billion in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the scientific and technical instruments company to buy up to 4.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often a sign that the company’s board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several large investors have recently modified their holdings of KEYS. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its holdings in Keysight Technologies by 0.5% during the 3rd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 21,423,838 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $3,747,458,000 after acquiring an additional 97,064 shares during the period. State Street Corp lifted its position in Keysight Technologies by 0.7% in the second quarter. State Street Corp now owns 7,973,742 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $1,306,577,000 after purchasing an additional 55,358 shares during the last quarter. Boston Partners boosted its stake in shares of Keysight Technologies by 3.4% during the third quarter. Boston Partners now owns 4,870,268 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $851,525,000 after purchasing an additional 160,728 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its stake in shares of Keysight Technologies by 0.9% during the second quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 4,575,953 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $747,437,000 after purchasing an additional 40,560 shares during the period. Finally, Capital World Investors grew its holdings in shares of Keysight Technologies by 1.6% in the third quarter. Capital World Investors now owns 3,700,709 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $647,328,000 after purchasing an additional 58,039 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 84.58% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. UBS Group set a $230.00 target price on shares of Keysight Technologies in a research report on Tuesday, November 25th. The Goldman Sachs Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $232.00 price target on shares of Keysight Technologies in a research note on Tuesday, November 25th. Barclays upped their price objective on Keysight Technologies from $195.00 to $232.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Tuesday, November 25th. Susquehanna raised their price objective on Keysight Technologies from $215.00 to $225.00 and gave the company a “positive” rating in a report on Tuesday, November 25th. Finally, Morgan Stanley upped their target price on Keysight Technologies from $208.00 to $227.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, December 17th. Eight equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and four have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, Keysight Technologies presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $218.82.

About Keysight Technologies

Keysight Technologies is a global provider of electronic design, test, measurement and optimization solutions for communications, electronics and related industries. The company was formed as a corporate spin-off from Agilent Technologies in 2014; its origins trace back to the electronic measurement business that was part of Hewlett‑Packard before Agilent. Keysight develops hardware and software used throughout the product development lifecycle, from design and simulation to prototype validation and manufacturing test.

Keysight’s product portfolio includes electronic test and measurement instruments such as oscilloscopes, network and spectrum analyzers, signal generators, vector network analyzers and modular PXI-based systems, together with software platforms for simulation, automated test and data analysis.