Amkor Technology (NASDAQ:AMKR) Price Target Raised to $40.00

Amkor Technology (NASDAQ:AMKR) had its target price hoisted by DA Davidson from $30.00 to $40.00 in a research report released on Tuesday morning,Benzinga reports. They currently have a buy rating on the semiconductor company’s stock. DA Davidson also issued estimates for Amkor Technology’s Q4 2025 earnings at $0.43 EPS, FY2025 earnings at $1.24 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $1.60 EPS.

AMKR has been the topic of several other reports. Needham & Company LLC upped their price objective on shares of Amkor Technology from $32.00 to $37.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday. Morgan Stanley restated an “equal weight” rating on shares of Amkor Technology in a research report on Tuesday, July 29th. UBS Group boosted their price objective on shares of Amkor Technology from $23.00 to $25.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 29th. B. Riley increased their target price on shares of Amkor Technology from $18.00 to $24.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 29th. Finally, Weiss Ratings restated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Amkor Technology in a research report on Wednesday, October 8th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, four have assigned a Buy rating and seven have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $29.63.

Amkor Technology Price Performance

AMKR opened at $31.92 on Tuesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29, a current ratio of 1.77 and a quick ratio of 1.70. The company has a market capitalization of $7.89 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.54 and a beta of 1.98. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $28.30 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $23.05. Amkor Technology has a 1 year low of $14.03 and a 1 year high of $33.82.

Amkor Technology (NASDAQ:AMKR) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October 27th. The semiconductor company reported $0.51 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.42 by $0.09. The business had revenue of $1.99 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.93 billion. Amkor Technology had a return on equity of 7.26% and a net margin of 4.77%.Amkor Technology’s revenue was up 6.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.49 earnings per share. Amkor Technology has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 0.380-0.480 EPS. As a group, analysts anticipate that Amkor Technology will post 1.47 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Amkor Technology Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, September 23rd. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, September 3rd were given a dividend of $0.0827 per share. This represents a $0.33 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.0%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, September 3rd. Amkor Technology’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 26.40%.

Insider Activity

In other news, CEO Guillaume Marie Jean Rutten sold 10,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, October 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $30.74, for a total value of $307,400.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 356,699 shares in the company, valued at approximately $10,964,927.26. This trade represents a 2.73% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, EVP Farshad Haghighi sold 11,792 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, September 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of $25.00, for a total transaction of $294,800.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president owned 8,354 shares in the company, valued at $208,850. This represents a 58.53% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. In the last quarter, insiders sold 31,792 shares of company stock worth $902,200. Company insiders own 26.90% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of Amkor Technology

Large investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Focus Partners Wealth lifted its position in Amkor Technology by 22.2% during the first quarter. Focus Partners Wealth now owns 303,549 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $5,482,000 after buying an additional 55,156 shares during the period. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. lifted its position in Amkor Technology by 15.0% during the first quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. now owns 10,886 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $197,000 after buying an additional 1,423 shares during the period. Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC lifted its position in Amkor Technology by 22.7% during the first quarter. Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC now owns 20,963 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $379,000 after buying an additional 3,885 shares during the period. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC lifted its position in Amkor Technology by 32.4% during the first quarter. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC now owns 22,260 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $403,000 after buying an additional 5,447 shares during the period. Finally, Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC purchased a new position in Amkor Technology during the second quarter valued at $311,000. 42.76% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

About Amkor Technology

Amkor Technology, Inc provides outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services in the United States, Japan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers turnkey packaging and test services, including semiconductor wafer bump, wafer probe, wafer back-grind, package design, packaging, system-level and final test, and drop shipment services; flip chip scale package products for smartphones, tablets, and other mobile consumer electronic devices; flip chip stacked chip scale packages that are used to stack memory digital baseband, and as applications processors in mobile devices; flip-chip ball grid array packages for various networking, storage, computing, automotive, and consumer applications; and memory products for system memory or platform data storage.