Banque Cantonale Vaudoise Has $1.07 Million Stock Holdings in Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:KEYS)

Banque Cantonale Vaudoise lifted its position in Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:KEYS) by 32.4% during the second quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 6,355 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock after acquiring an additional 1,555 shares during the period. Banque Cantonale Vaudoise’s holdings in Keysight Technologies were worth $1,065,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the company. Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd Zurich raised its holdings in Keysight Technologies by 22,598.3% during the 2nd quarter. Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd Zurich now owns 59,271,518 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $9,925,016,000 after buying an additional 59,010,391 shares during the period. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. raised its holdings in Keysight Technologies by 1,242.2% during the 1st quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. now owns 3,939,449 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $48,469,000 after buying an additional 3,645,946 shares during the period. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in Keysight Technologies during the 4th quarter worth approximately $265,043,000. Moneta Group Investment Advisors LLC raised its holdings in Keysight Technologies by 110,226.3% during the 4th quarter. Moneta Group Investment Advisors LLC now owns 1,500,438 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $256,680,000 after buying an additional 1,499,078 shares during the period. Finally, Alliancebernstein L.P. raised its holdings in Keysight Technologies by 31.8% during the 4th quarter. Alliancebernstein L.P. now owns 2,160,766 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $369,642,000 after buying an additional 521,934 shares during the period. 81.72% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Keysight Technologies Price Performance

NYSE:KEYS opened at $129.19 on Wednesday. Keysight Technologies, Inc. has a 1-year low of $118.57 and a 1-year high of $189.45. The company has a current ratio of 3.66, a quick ratio of 2.93 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.37. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $128.13 and a 200 day simple moving average of $145.94. The stock has a market capitalization of $22.94 billion, a PE ratio of 20.51, a P/E/G ratio of 3.04 and a beta of 1.04.

Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) last released its earnings results on Thursday, August 17th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $2.04 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.89 by $0.15. Keysight Technologies had a net margin of 20.19% and a return on equity of 30.56%. The business had revenue of $1.38 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.38 billion. On average, research analysts expect that Keysight Technologies, Inc. will post 7.52 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several brokerages have commented on KEYS. StockNews.com upgraded shares of Keysight Technologies from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, November 8th. The Goldman Sachs Group raised shares of Keysight Technologies from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and raised their price target for the stock from $146.00 to $164.00 in a research note on Monday, September 4th. Barclays cut shares of Keysight Technologies from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and decreased their price target for the stock from $204.00 to $144.00 in a research note on Friday, August 18th. Bank of America decreased their price target on shares of Keysight Technologies from $148.00 to $142.00 in a research note on Friday, August 18th. Finally, Morgan Stanley raised shares of Keysight Technologies from an “equal weight” rating to an “overweight” rating and set a $165.00 price target for the company in a research note on Friday, September 15th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, one has issued a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, Keysight Technologies has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $175.73.

Keysight Technologies Company Profile

Keysight Technologies, Inc provides electronic design and test solutions to commercial communications, networking, aerospace, defense and government, automotive, energy, semiconductor, electronic, and education industries in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Its Communications Solutions Group segment provides electronic design automation (EDA) software; radio frequency and microwave test solutions, and related software; hardware and virtual network test platforms and software applications, including data center, routing and switching, software defined networking, security, and encryption; oscilloscopes, logic and serial protocol analyzers, logic-signal sources, arbitrary waveform generators, and bit error rate testers; and optical modulation analyzers, optical component analyzers, optical power meters, and optical laser source solutions, as well as resells refurbished used Keysight equipment.