Is Monolithic Power System Inc’s (NASDAQ: MPWR) Stock Ready For A Price Spike?

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In the last trading session, 1.29 million shares of the Monolithic Power System Inc (NASDAQ:MPWR) were traded, and its beta was 1.20. Most recently the company’s share price was $538.80, and it changed around $5.67 or 1.06% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $25.79B. MPWR currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $959.64, offering almost -78.11% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $438.86, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 18.55% since then. We note from Monolithic Power System Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 1.62 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.04 million.

Monolithic Power System Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.63. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 17 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 3 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 4 recommended MPWR as a Hold, whereas 10 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Monolithic Power System Inc is expected to report earnings per share of 4.0 for the current quarter.

Monolithic Power System Inc (NASDAQ:MPWR) trade information

Instantly MPWR has showed a green trend with a performance of 1.06% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 567.71 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 5.09%. The company’s shares are currently down -8.94% year-to-date, but still up 10.27% over the last five days. On the other hand, Monolithic Power System Inc (NASDAQ:MPWR) is -11.10% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 2.45 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 2.67 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $681, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 20.88% from its current value. Analyst projections state that MPWR is forecast to be at a low of $600 and a high of $762.

Monolithic Power System Inc (MPWR) estimates and forecasts

The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 18.86%, up from the previous year.

Consensus estimates provided by 15 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 633.43M in revenue for the current quarter. 15 analysts expect Monolithic Power System Inc to make 633.54M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 457.88M and 507.43M respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 38.34%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 24.85%.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 72.75%. Monolithic Power System Inc earnings are expected to increase by 18.76% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 17.83% per year for the next five years.

MPWR Dividends

Monolithic Power System Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Feb-05. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 0.99 percent and its annual dividend per share was 5.31. It is important to note, however, that the 0.99% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 0.64 per year.

Monolithic Power System Inc (NASDAQ:MPWR)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 3.43% of Monolithic Power System Inc shares, and 100.05% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 103.61%. Monolithic Power System Inc stock is held by 1240.0 institutions, with BLACKROCK INC. being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 12.1333% of the shares, which is about 5.91 million shares worth $4.85 billion.

VANGUARD GROUP INC, with 11.7099% or 5.7 million shares worth $4.68 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.

Fidelity Select Portfolios-Semiconductors Portfolio and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Feb 28, 2025 . The former held 1.66 shares worth $896.68 million, making up 3.48% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 1.46 shares worth around $784.48 million, which represents about 3.04% of the total shares outstanding.