Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC Boosts Stock Holdings in Keysight Technologies Inc. $KEYS

Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC increased its position in shares of Keysight Technologies Inc. (NYSE:KEYS) by 15.4% in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 25,965 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock after purchasing an additional 3,465 shares during the quarter. Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC’s holdings in Keysight Technologies were worth $4,255,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Several other large investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Vanguard Group Inc. grew its holdings in shares of 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 grew its stake in Keysight Technologies by 16.6% during the 1st quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 18,790,100 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $2,814,195,000 after acquiring an additional 2,675,148 shares in the last quarter. Boston Partners grew its stake in Keysight Technologies by 7.7% during the 1st quarter. Boston Partners now owns 4,263,417 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $636,854,000 after acquiring an additional 305,143 shares in the last quarter. T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. raised its holdings in Keysight Technologies by 1.0% in the 1st quarter. T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. now owns 3,317,700 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $496,892,000 after acquiring an additional 33,818 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Invesco Ltd. lifted its stake in Keysight Technologies by 2.4% in the 1st quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 2,273,896 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $340,561,000 after purchasing an additional 53,846 shares in the last quarter. 84.58% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Insiders Place Their Bets

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

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities research analysts have recently issued reports on the company. Bank of America upped their price target on Keysight Technologies from $175.00 to $179.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 20th. Wall Street Zen cut Keysight Technologies from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Saturday, September 20th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their target price on Keysight Technologies from $177.00 to $200.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, July 17th. Morgan Stanley restated an “equal weight” rating and issued a $180.00 target price on shares of Keysight Technologies in a report on Friday, October 10th. Finally, Barclays dropped their target price on Keysight Technologies from $200.00 to $195.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, August 20th. Six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and three have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $187.38.

Keysight Technologies Trading Up 0.9%

Shares of Keysight Technologies stock opened at $164.89 on Wednesday. The firm has a market capitalization of $28.34 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 52.51, a PEG ratio of 2.28 and a beta of 1.18. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.45, a quick ratio of 2.94 and a current ratio of 3.59. Keysight Technologies Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $121.43 and a fifty-two week high of $186.20. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $168.50 and a 200 day moving average of $159.72.

Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August 19th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $1.72 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.67 by $0.05. The business 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%.The company’s revenue was up 11.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business 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. As a group, research analysts predict that Keysight Technologies Inc. will post 6.32 earnings per share for the current year.

Keysight Technologies Profile

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.