AXT Inc (NASDAQ:AXTI) At $2.29: Does It Look Expensive?

In last trading session, AXT Inc (NASDAQ:AXTI) saw 1.6 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 2.13. Company’s recent per share price level of $2.29 trading at -$0.01 or -0.22% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $102.48M. That closing price of AXTI’s stock is at a discount of -146.29% from its 52-week high price of $5.64 and is indicating a premium of 24.45% from its 52-week low price of $1.73.

For AXT Inc (AXTI), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 4 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 4 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of -0.04 in the current quarter.

AXT Inc (NASDAQ:AXTI) trade information

Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.22%, in the last five days AXTI remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 02/19/25 when the stock touched $2.29 price level, adding 12.6% to its value on the day. AXT Inc’s shares saw a change of 5.53% in year-to-date performance and have moved 11.71% in past 5-day. AXT Inc (NASDAQ:AXTI) showed a performance of -6.15% in past 30-days.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 5.25 to the stock, which implies a rise of 56.38% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 5 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 6. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -118.34% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -118.34% for stock’s current value.

AXT Inc (AXTI) estimates and forecasts

This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 29.54% from the last financial year’s standing.

5 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 23.93M for the same. And 5 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 23.85M in the next quarter. Company posted 20.43M and 22.69M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.

AXT Inc (NASDAQ:AXTI)’s Major holders

VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at AXTI for having 2.3 million shares of worth $7.76 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 5.3416 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is NEEDHAM INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC, which was holding about 1.54 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 3.5762 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $5.21 million.