111 Capital Makes New $202,000 Investment in Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. $MPWR

111 Capital purchased a new position in shares of Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MPWR) during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund purchased 276 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock, valued at approximately $202,000.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of MPWR. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Monolithic Power Systems by 1.7% during the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 5,920,669 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $3,433,870,000 after acquiring an additional 96,395 shares during the period. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD lifted its holdings in shares of Monolithic Power Systems by 33.1% during the first quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 2,034,731 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,180,104,000 after acquiring an additional 506,430 shares during the period. Invesco Ltd. lifted its holdings in shares of Monolithic Power Systems by 7.5% during the first quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 1,249,335 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $724,589,000 after acquiring an additional 86,853 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted its holdings in shares of Monolithic Power Systems by 26.5% during the first quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 629,566 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $365,136,000 after acquiring an additional 132,078 shares during the period. Finally, Bank of New York Mellon Corp lifted its holdings in shares of Monolithic Power Systems by 1.5% during the first quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 355,312 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $206,074,000 after acquiring an additional 5,390 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 93.46% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of brokerages have issued reports on MPWR. William Blair raised Monolithic Power Systems to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, August 13th. Citigroup lifted their price objective on Monolithic Power Systems from $825.00 to $1,100.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday. Oppenheimer reissued an “outperform” rating and set a $800.00 price objective (up from $700.00) on shares of Monolithic Power Systems in a report on Tuesday, July 15th. KeyCorp lifted their price objective on Monolithic Power Systems from $950.00 to $1,050.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Tuesday, September 30th. Finally, Raymond James Financial reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and issued a $875.00 price target (up from $720.00) on shares of Monolithic Power Systems in a report on Friday, August 1st. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, eight have assigned a Buy rating and three have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $880.50.

Monolithic Power Systems Trading Down 2.3%

Shares of NASDAQ:MPWR opened at $945.49 on Wednesday. The stock has a market capitalization of $45.28 billion, a P/E ratio of 24.62, a P/E/G ratio of 3.61 and a beta of 1.27. Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. has a 1-year low of $438.86 and a 1-year high of $986.63. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $855.22 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $723.48.

Monolithic Power Systems (NASDAQ:MPWR) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July 31st. The semiconductor company reported $4.21 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $4.12 by $0.09. The firm had revenue of $664.57 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $648.74 million. Monolithic Power Systems had a return on equity of 19.14% and a net margin of 73.17%.The company’s quarterly revenue was up 31.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $3.17 EPS. Monolithic Power Systems has set its Q3 2025 guidance at EPS. As a group, equities analysts predict that Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. will post 13.2 EPS for the current year.

Monolithic Power Systems Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, October 15th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, September 30th will be issued a dividend of $1.56 per share. This represents a $6.24 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.7%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, September 30th. Monolithic Power Systems’s payout ratio is currently 16.25%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, EVP Saria Tseng sold 14,510 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, September 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $914.45, for a total value of $13,268,669.50. Following the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 144,494 shares in the company, valued at $132,132,538.30. This trade represents a 9.13% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, EVP Deming Xiao sold 39,999 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, August 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $780.00, for a total transaction of $31,199,220.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president owned 121,605 shares in the company, valued at $94,851,900. This represents a 24.75% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 65,702 shares of company stock worth $53,834,480 over the last quarter. Insiders own 3.40% of the company’s stock.

About Monolithic Power Systems

Monolithic Power Systems, Inc engages in the design, development, marketing, and sale of semiconductor-based power electronics solutions for the storage and computing, automotive, enterprise data, consumer, communications, and industrial markets. The company provides direct current (DC) to DC integrated circuits (ICs) that are used to convert and control voltages of various electronic systems, such as cloud-based CPU servers, server artificial intelligence applications, storage applications, commercial notebooks, digital cockpit, power sources, home appliances, 4G and 5G infrastructure, and satellite communications applications.