Before Buying Camtek Ltd (NASDAQ: CAMT) Stock, Read This First

Camtek Ltd (NASDAQ:CAMT) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 4.18% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $60.37.

Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $57.95, falling within a range of $58.27 and $60.5. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.431 whereas the PE ratio was 24.63 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $140.50, and the low was $47.41. On the whole, CAMT has fluctuated by -6.65% over the past month.

With the market capitalization of Camtek Ltd currently standing at about $2.75 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-11.

Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 492.87M, with a low estimate of 118.99M and a high estimate of 119M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 119M.

Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that CAMT’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% 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 2.77, with the price of CAMT currently trading nearly 1.03% and -12.45% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 47.58, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.76% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 6.94%. Furthermore, Camtek Ltd (CAMT)’s beta value is 1.35, and its average true range (ATR) is 4.57.

A comparison of Camtek Ltd (CAMT) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. CAMT showed an intraday change of 4.18% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -27.71%%.

Data on historical trading for Camtek Ltd (NASDAQ:CAMT) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.49 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 566.79K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 45.45 million shares outstanding.

Nearly 38.48% of Camtek Ltd’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 54.86% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 3.52 million shares as on 2025-03-31, resulting in a short ratio of 7.37. According to the data, the short interest in Camtek Ltd (CAMT) stood at 1253.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-31; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-28 reached 4.29 million. The stock has fallen by -25.26% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the CAMT stock heading into the next quarter.

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