James Cullen Sells 3,000 Shares of Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) Stock

Keysight Technologies Inc. (NYSE:KEYS) Director James Cullen sold 3,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $346.58, for a total value of $1,039,740.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 21,821 shares in the company, valued at $7,562,722.18. This trade represents a 12.09% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website.

Keysight Technologies Stock Performance

NYSE:KEYS opened at $329.67 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $56.54 billion, a PE ratio of 54.22, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.96 and a beta of 1.22. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $332.65 and its 200 day moving average price is $265.85. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29, a current ratio of 1.90 and a quick ratio of 1.51. Keysight Technologies Inc. has a 12 month low of $152.85 and a 12 month high of $370.17.

Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, May 19th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $2.87 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.32 by $0.55. The firm had revenue of $1.72 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.71 billion. Keysight Technologies had a return on equity of 21.58% and a net margin of 17.25%.Keysight Technologies’s revenue for the quarter was up 31.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $1.70 earnings per share. Keysight Technologies has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 2.430-2.490 EPS. On average, sell-side analysts anticipate that Keysight Technologies Inc. will post 9.03 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Keysight Technologies

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. DV Trading LLC grew its holdings in shares of Keysight Technologies by 355.0% during the first quarter. DV Trading LLC now owns 910 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $257,000 after buying an additional 710 shares during the last quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of Keysight Technologies by 12.5% during the first quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC now owns 3,819 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $1,078,000 after buying an additional 424 shares during the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of Keysight Technologies by 19.5% during the first quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 9,043 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $2,554,000 after buying an additional 1,474 shares during the last quarter. Concorde Asset Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Keysight Technologies during the first quarter worth about $233,000. Finally, Integrated Investment Consultants LLC purchased a new position in shares of Keysight Technologies during the first quarter worth about $202,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 84.58% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

KEYS has been the topic of several research reports. Citigroup raised their price objective on Keysight Technologies from $320.00 to $396.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. The Goldman Sachs Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of Keysight Technologies in a report on Wednesday, May 20th. Susquehanna raised their price objective on Keysight Technologies from $415.00 to $425.00 and gave the stock a “positive” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 20th. Bank of America raised Keysight Technologies from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $340.00 price objective on the stock in a report on Tuesday, February 24th. Finally, Wall Street Zen raised Keysight Technologies from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Saturday, February 28th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, nine have given a Buy rating and four have assigned a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $371.92.

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.