BE Semiconductor Industries NV (OTCMKTS:BESIY) Given Consensus Rating of “Moderate Buy” by Analysts

BE Semiconductor Industries NV (OTCMKTS:BESIY) has earned an average recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the ten ratings firms that are presently covering the stock, MarketBeat.com reports. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, five have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company.

A number of research analysts have issued reports on the stock. Zacks Research upgraded shares of BE Semiconductor Industries to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, April 23rd. Citigroup reissued a “neutral” rating on shares of BE Semiconductor Industries in a report on Tuesday, January 20th. Finally, Berenberg Bank raised BE Semiconductor Industries to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, February 23rd.

BE Semiconductor Industries Price Performance

Shares of OTCMKTS BESIY opened at $309.92 on Friday. BE Semiconductor Industries has a fifty-two week low of $116.78 and a fifty-two week high of $312.75. The company has a market cap of $22.47 billion, a PE ratio of 140.23 and a beta of 1.96. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.22, a quick ratio of 4.88 and a current ratio of 5.55. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $246.28 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $202.38.

BE Semiconductor Industries (OTCMKTS:BESIY) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 23rd. The technology company reported $0.76 EPS for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $0.76. The firm had revenue of $216.51 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $220.77 million. BE Semiconductor Industries had a net margin of 24.02% and a return on equity of 40.69%. As a group, equities analysts expect that BE Semiconductor Industries will post 4.46 EPS for the current fiscal year.

BE Semiconductor Industries Company Profile

BE Semiconductor Industries NV (OTCMKTS:BESIY), commonly known as BESI, is a global supplier of assembly equipment for the semiconductor industry. The company designs, develops and manufactures capital equipment used in the back-end production of semiconductor devices, including die attach, wire bonding and flip chip packaging systems. BESI’s platforms support a wide range of applications from memory and logic chips to advanced power devices and radio-frequency modules, enabling high precision, throughput and yield in device assembly and test processes.

Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Duiven, the Netherlands, BESI went public on Euronext Amsterdam in 1999.