Bing Xue Sells 1,242 Shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (NASDAQ:AOSL) Stock

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (NASDAQ:AOSL) EVP Bing Xue sold 1,242 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, January 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $35.00, for a total transaction of $43,470.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 115,368 shares in the company, valued at approximately $4,037,880. The trade was a 1.07 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink.

Bing Xue also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Thursday, December 12th, Bing Xue sold 1,883 shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $47.38, for a total value of $89,216.54.
• On Tuesday, December 3rd, Bing Xue sold 875 shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $41.00, for a total transaction of $35,875.00.

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Stock Up 0.8 %

AOSL traded up $0.27 during midday trading on Tuesday, reaching $35.53. 247,826 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 450,683. The company has a market cap of $1.03 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -53.03 and a beta of 2.48. Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited has a one year low of $19.38 and a one year high of $53.29. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $37.98 and its 200 day moving average price is $37.67. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a quick ratio of 1.44 and a current ratio of 2.65.

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (NASDAQ:AOSL) last released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, November 4th. The semiconductor company reported $0.21 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.22 by ($0.01). The company had revenue of $181.89 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $180.07 million. Alpha and Omega Semiconductor had a negative net margin of 2.94% and a positive return on equity of 0.19%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up .7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.30 earnings per share. As a group, analysts expect that Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited will post -0.67 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several analysts recently weighed in on the stock. StockNews.com raised shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, December 24th. Stifel Nicolaus cut their price objective on Alpha and Omega Semiconductor from $34.00 to $27.00 and set a “sell” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, November 6th. Benchmark restated a “buy” rating and set a $40.00 price target on shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor in a report on Wednesday, November 6th. Finally, B. Riley decreased their price objective on shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor from $50.00 to $47.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, November 5th.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Alpha and Omega Semiconductor

Institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted its stake in shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor by 42.5% in the 3rd quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 36,608 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,359,000 after buying an additional 10,921 shares during the last quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. grew its stake in Alpha and Omega Semiconductor by 9.0% in the 3rd quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. now owns 13,276 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $510,000 after purchasing an additional 1,096 shares during the period. Barclays PLC increased its position in shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor by 367.4% during the 3rd quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 40,359 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,498,000 after purchasing an additional 31,725 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC raised its stake in shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor by 5.7% during the 3rd quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 578,705 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $21,486,000 after purchasing an additional 31,286 shares during the period. Finally, Zacks Investment Management boosted its holdings in shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor by 12.1% in the 3rd quarter. Zacks Investment Management now owns 67,367 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $2,501,000 after buying an additional 7,294 shares during the last quarter. 78.97% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Company Profile

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited designs, develops, and supplies power semiconductor products for computing, consumer electronics, communication, and industrial applications in Hong Kong, China, South Korea, the United States, and internationally. It offers power discrete products, including metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET), SRFETs, XSFET, electrostatic discharge, protected MOSFETs, high and mid-voltage MOSFETs, and insulated gate bipolar transistors for use in smart phone chargers, battery packs, notebooks, desktop and servers, data centers, base stations, graphics card, game boxes, TVs, AC adapters, power supplies, motor control, power tools, E-vehicles, white goods and industrial motor drives, UPS systems, solar inverters, and industrial welding.