Semiconductor designer Power Integrations (NASDAQ:POWI) will be reporting earnings tomorrow after the bell. Here’s what investors should know.
Power Integrations beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $115.8 million, down 7.7% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Power Integrations’s revenue to grow 17.4% year on year to $105.1 million, a reversal from the 28.3% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.28 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Power Integrations has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
Looking at Power Integrations’s peers in the analog semiconductors segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Texas Instruments’s revenues decreased 1.7% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.3%, and NXP Semiconductors reported a revenue decline of 9.1%, in line with consensus estimates. Texas Instruments traded down 7.5% following the results while NXP Semiconductors was also down 1.1%.
Read our full analysis of Texas Instruments’s results here and NXP Semiconductors’s results here.
Stocks, especially growth stocks where cash flows further in the future are more important to the story, have had a good 2024. An economic soft landing (so far), the start of the Fed's rate cutting campaign, and the election of Donald Trump were positives for the market, and while some of the analog semiconductors stocks have shown solid performance, the group has generally underpeformed, with share prices down 3.1% on average over the last month. Power Integrations’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $78 (compared to the current share price of $62.17).
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