Insider Selling: Ultra Clean (NASDAQ:UCTT) Insider Sells $848,912.88 in Stock

Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:UCTT) insider Christopher Cook sold 11,478 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, May 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $73.96, for a total value of $848,912.88. Following the sale, the insider directly owned 97,427 shares in the company, valued at approximately $7,205,700.92. This represents a 10.54% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink.

Ultra Clean Trading Up 9.0%

NASDAQ UCTT opened at $87.10 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $3.90 billion, a P/E ratio of -20.30, a P/E/G ratio of 1.12 and a beta of 1.94. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.86, a current ratio of 3.07 and a quick ratio of 1.72. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $66.94 and its 200-day moving average is $45.83. Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. has a one year low of $18.93 and a one year high of $87.68.

Ultra Clean (NASDAQ:UCTT) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April 28th. The semiconductor company reported $0.31 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.27 by $0.04. The business had revenue of $533.70 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $525.28 million. Ultra Clean had a positive return on equity of 4.28% and a negative net margin of 9.38%.Ultra Clean’s quarterly revenue was up 2.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.28 earnings per share. Ultra Clean has set its Q2 2026 guidance at 0.440-0.600 EPS. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. will post 2.04 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research analysts recently issued reports on the company. Needham & Company LLC increased their price objective on Ultra Clean from $70.00 to $92.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Craig Hallum reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $100.00 price objective on shares of Ultra Clean in a report on Tuesday, February 24th. Zacks Research downgraded Ultra Clean from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. Oppenheimer increased their price objective on Ultra Clean from $85.00 to $100.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Finally, Wall Street Zen upgraded Ultra Clean from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Saturday, May 2nd. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, four have assigned a Buy rating, one has given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $104.40.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its holdings in Ultra Clean by 6.2% during the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 4,990,724 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $126,415,000 after purchasing an additional 293,048 shares during the last quarter. Invesco Ltd. lifted its holdings in Ultra Clean by 63.1% during the 4th quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 3,399,834 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $86,118,000 after purchasing an additional 1,315,407 shares during the last quarter. State Street Corp lifted its holdings in Ultra Clean by 5.0% during the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 1,852,482 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $46,923,000 after purchasing an additional 87,931 shares during the last quarter. Royce & Associates LP lifted its holdings in Ultra Clean by 7.1% during the 3rd quarter. Royce & Associates LP now owns 1,107,416 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $30,177,000 after purchasing an additional 73,872 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. lifted its holdings in Ultra Clean by 5.7% during the 4th quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 821,088 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $20,798,000 after purchasing an additional 43,987 shares during the last quarter. 96.06% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

About Ultra Clean

Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc is a global supplier of critical consumables and process tools for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. The company specializes in precision parts cleaning, chemical–mechanical planarization (CMP) slurries, surface conditioning pads, and specialty components used in wafer fabrication and advanced packaging. Ultra Clean also provides assembly and test hardware, tooling, and automated modules designed to support complex front-end and back-end processes in semiconductor fabs.

Ultra Clean’s product portfolio encompasses a range of cleaning systems and consumables aimed at particle and film removal, as well as CMP slurries and pads that are engineered for uniform material removal and planarization.