Monolithic Power Systems (NASDAQ:MPWR) Posts Earnings Results, Misses Estimates By $0.84 EPS

Monolithic Power Systems (NASDAQ:MPWR) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday. The semiconductor company reported $3.17 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $4.01 by ($0.84), Zacks reports. Monolithic Power Systems had a return on equity of 22.49% and a net margin of 80.95%. Monolithic Power Systems updated its Q1 2025 guidance to EPS.

Monolithic Power Systems Price Performance

Monolithic Power Systems stock opened at $720.25 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $35.13 billion, a P/E ratio of 19.59, a PEG ratio of 2.53 and a beta of 1.03. Monolithic Power Systems has a one year low of $546.71 and a one year high of $959.64. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $615.56 and a 200-day moving average price of $755.86.

Monolithic Power Systems Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 15th. Shareholders of record on Monday, March 31st will be issued a dividend of $1.56 per share. This is a boost from Monolithic Power Systems’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.25. The ex-dividend date is Monday, March 31st. This represents a $6.24 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.87%. Monolithic Power Systems’s payout ratio is presently 13.60%.

Insider Activity at Monolithic Power Systems

In other news, CFO Theodore Blegen sold 2,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, December 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $600.00, for a total transaction of $1,500,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer now directly owns 53,444 shares in the company, valued at $32,066,400. The trade was a 4.47 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. 3.70% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of analysts have commented on the stock. Oppenheimer cut their price target on shares of Monolithic Power Systems from $900.00 to $800.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, January 31st. Wells Fargo & Company lifted their target price on Monolithic Power Systems from $610.00 to $710.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday. KeyCorp increased their price target on Monolithic Power Systems from $700.00 to $850.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday. Loop Capital raised their price objective on shares of Monolithic Power Systems from $660.00 to $760.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday. Finally, Needham & Company LLC boosted their target price on shares of Monolithic Power Systems from $600.00 to $800.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday. Two analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $866.17.

About Monolithic Power Systems

Monolithic Power Systems, Inc engages in the design, development, marketing, and sale of semiconductor-based power electronics solutions for the storage and computing, automotive, enterprise data, consumer, communications, and industrial markets. The company provides direct current (DC) to DC integrated circuits (ICs) that are used to convert and control voltages of various electronic systems, such as cloud-based CPU servers, server artificial intelligence applications, storage applications, commercial notebooks, digital cockpit, power sources, home appliances, 4G and 5G infrastructure, and satellite communications applications.