Legal & General Group Plc Grows Stake in NXP Semiconductors N.V. $NXPI

Legal & General Group Plc raised its stake in NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) by 1.5% during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 1,869,228 shares of the semiconductor provider’s stock after acquiring an additional 28,275 shares during the period. Legal & General Group Plc owned approximately 0.74% of NXP Semiconductors worth $408,408,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in NXPI. MAI Capital Management increased its holdings in shares of NXP Semiconductors by 7.5% in the second quarter. MAI Capital Management now owns 2,595 shares of the semiconductor provider’s stock worth $567,000 after purchasing an additional 180 shares during the last quarter. DNB Asset Management AS increased its stake in NXP Semiconductors by 21.3% in the 2nd quarter. DNB Asset Management AS now owns 46,057 shares of the semiconductor provider’s stock worth $10,063,000 after acquiring an additional 8,085 shares during the last quarter. Entropy Technologies LP purchased a new stake in shares of NXP Semiconductors during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $830,000. Swiss National Bank raised its holdings in shares of NXP Semiconductors by 7.1% during the 2nd quarter. Swiss National Bank now owns 767,729 shares of the semiconductor provider’s stock worth $167,741,000 after acquiring an additional 51,000 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Personal CFO Solutions LLC grew its holdings in shares of NXP Semiconductors by 3.2% in the second quarter. Personal CFO Solutions LLC now owns 3,038 shares of the semiconductor provider’s stock valued at $664,000 after purchasing an additional 95 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 90.54% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of equities research analysts have issued reports on NXPI shares. Evercore ISI upped their price objective on NXP Semiconductors from $289.00 to $292.00 in a research report on Wednesday, October 29th. TD Cowen dropped their price objective on shares of NXP Semiconductors from $270.00 to $260.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, October 10th. Sanford C. Bernstein set a $220.00 target price on shares of NXP Semiconductors and gave the company a “market perform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 29th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “hold (c)” rating on shares of NXP Semiconductors in a research note on Wednesday, October 8th. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald reissued an “overweight” rating and issued a $280.00 price objective on shares of NXP Semiconductors in a research report on Tuesday, October 28th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirteen have issued a Buy rating and five have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $252.47.

NXP Semiconductors Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:NXPI opened at $191.35 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $48.16 billion, a PE ratio of 23.68, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.53 and a beta of 1.47. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.09, a quick ratio of 1.20 and a current ratio of 2.37. NXP Semiconductors N.V. has a one year low of $148.09 and a one year high of $255.45. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $214.21 and its 200-day simple moving average is $216.11.

NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ:NXPI) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, October 27th. The semiconductor provider reported $3.11 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $3.12 by ($0.01). The business had revenue of $3.17 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $3.15 billion. NXP Semiconductors had a return on equity of 26.92% and a net margin of 17.11%.NXP Semiconductors’s revenue for the quarter was down 2.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $3.45 EPS. NXP Semiconductors has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 3.070-3.490 EPS. As a group, equities analysts predict that NXP Semiconductors N.V. will post 10.28 EPS for the current year.

NXP Semiconductors Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, January 7th. Investors of record on Wednesday, December 10th will be paid a dividend of $1.014 per share. This represents a $4.06 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.1%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 10th. NXP Semiconductors’s dividend payout ratio is 50.12%.

Insider Transactions at NXP Semiconductors

In other NXP Semiconductors news, EVP Jennifer Wuamett sold 8,372 shares of NXP Semiconductors stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, November 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $207.01, for a total value of $1,733,087.72. Following the transaction, the executive vice president owned 19,175 shares in the company, valued at $3,969,416.75. The trade was a 30.39% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, EVP Andrew Micallef sold 1,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $216.21, for a total transaction of $216,210.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president owned 6,828 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,476,281.88. This trade represents a 12.77% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. 0.12% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

About NXP Semiconductors

NXP Semiconductors N.V. offers various semiconductor products. The company's product portfolio includes microcontrollers; application processors, including i.MX application processors, and i.MX 8 and 9 family of applications processors; communication processors; wireless connectivity solutions, such as near field communications, ultra-wideband, Bluetooth low-energy, Zigbee, and Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth integrated SoCs; analog and interface devices; radio frequency power amplifiers; and security controllers, as well as semiconductor-based environmental and inertial sensors, including pressure, inertial, magnetic, and gyroscopic sensors.