MKS Instruments, Inc (NASDAQ:MKSI) shares, rose in value on Friday, March 28, with the stock price down by -3.80% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $81.59.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $84.82, falling within a range of $80.77 and $84.515. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.753 whereas the PE ratio was 29.04 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $147.40, and the low was $76.37. On the whole, MKSI has fluctuated by -10.51% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of MKS Instruments, Inc currently standing at about $5.50 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-11. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.88, with its dividend yield at 1.08%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 3.81B, with a low estimate of 909.87M and a high estimate of 930M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 913.59M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that MKSI’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.27, with the price of MKSI currently trading nearly -4.78% and -18.10% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 36.26, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 3.99% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 4.74%. Furthermore, MKS Instruments, Inc (MKSI)’s beta value is 1.79, and its average true range (ATR) is 4.17.
A comparison of MKS Instruments, Inc (MKSI) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. MKSI showed an intraday change of -3.80% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -35.51%%.
Data on historical trading for MKS Instruments, Inc (NASDAQ:MKSI) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.12 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.05 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 67.40 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.63% of MKS Instruments, Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 104.92% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 3.11 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 2.4. According to the data, the short interest in MKS Instruments, Inc (MKSI) stood at 598.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 3.26 million. The stock has fallen by -21.84% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the MKSI stock heading into the next quarter.
