BE Semiconductor Industries NV (OTCMKTS:BESIY) Receives Average Recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from Analysts

Shares of BE Semiconductor Industries NV (OTCMKTS:BESIY) have earned a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” from the nine ratings firms that are presently covering the firm, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and five have given a buy recommendation to the company.

Several brokerages have recently issued reports on BESIY. Morgan Stanley restated an “overweight” rating on shares of BE Semiconductor Industries in a research note on Tuesday, May 19th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of BE Semiconductor Industries in a research report on Friday, May 15th. Finally, Zacks Research downgraded shares of BE Semiconductor Industries from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, June 26th.

BE Semiconductor Industries Price Performance

BE Semiconductor Industries stock opened at $294.22 on Monday. The business has a fifty day moving average of $320.77 and a two-hundred day moving average of $245.43. The company has a quick ratio of 4.17, a current ratio of 4.74 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.11. The firm has a market cap of $21.33 billion, a P/E ratio of 133.13 and a beta of 1.97. BE Semiconductor Industries has a twelve month low of $122.81 and a twelve month high of $374.33.

BE Semiconductor Industries (OTCMKTS:BESIY) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The technology company reported $0.76 EPS for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.76. BE Semiconductor Industries had a net margin of 24.02% and a return on equity of 38.42%. The company had revenue of $216.51 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $220.77 million. On average, analysts forecast that BE Semiconductor Industries will post 4.45 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

BE Semiconductor Industries Company Profile

BE Semiconductor Industries NV (OTCMKTS:BESIY), commonly known as BESI, is a global supplier of assembly equipment for the semiconductor industry. The company designs, develops and manufactures capital equipment used in the back-end production of semiconductor devices, including die attach, wire bonding and flip chip packaging systems. BESI’s platforms support a wide range of applications from memory and logic chips to advanced power devices and radio-frequency modules, enabling high precision, throughput and yield in device assembly and test processes.

Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Duiven, the Netherlands, BESI went public on Euronext Amsterdam in 1999.