On June 12, FormFactor rose 5.11% in regular trading, trading at $136.73/share, with turnover of $31.24 million, extending a rebound from recent oversold levels.
On the news front, B.Riley upgraded FormFactor from Neutral to Buy, maintaining a $165 price target. This follows Evercore ISI's earlier upgrade from In Line to Outperform with a $155 target. According to FactSet, the consensus analyst rating stands at Overweight with a mean price target of $154.75.
The successive upgrades come on the heels of FormFactor's strong first-quarter results, which showed revenue of $230 million, gross margin improving 5.1 percentage points sequentially to 49.0%, and raised second-quarter guidance. The concentration of bullish analyst actions signals growing confidence in the company's near-term earnings trajectory and competitive positioning in the semiconductor probe card market.
Within the Semiconductor Equipment sector, sector performance was mixed. Among individual stocks, KLA-Tencor up 3.41%, Teradyne up 4.72%, Applied Materials up 0.79%, Lam Research up 0.65%, ASML Holding NV down 1.46%.
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