MaxLinear Inc (NASDAQ:MXL) Drops -4.88% In One Week: What’s Boosting Its Stock?

In last trading session, MaxLinear Inc (NASDAQ:MXL) saw 4.47 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.61. Company’s recent per share price level of $9.65 trading at -$1.36 or -12.31% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $833.94M. That closing price of MXL’s stock is at a discount of -175.54% from its 52-week high price of $26.59 and is indicating a premium of 13.47% from its 52-week low price of $8.35. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.68 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.94 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For MaxLinear Inc (MXL), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.25. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 12 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 4 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 8 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.02 in the current quarter.

MaxLinear Inc (NASDAQ:MXL) trade information

Upright in the red during last session for losing -12.31%, in the last five days MXL remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 04/23/25 when the stock touched $9.65 price level, adding 17.59% to its value on the day. MaxLinear Inc’s shares saw a change of -51.19% in year-to-date performance and have moved -4.88% in past 5-day. MaxLinear Inc (NASDAQ:MXL) showed a performance of -26.86% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 5.47 million shares which calculate 3.44 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 25 to the stock, which implies a rise of 61.4% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 25 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 25. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -159.07% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -159.07% for stock’s current value.

MaxLinear Inc (MXL) estimates and forecasts

This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 22.86% from the last financial year’s standing.

11 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 104.94M for the same. And 11 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 116.07M in the next quarter. Company posted 91.99M and 81.1M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -59.94% during past 5 years.

MaxLinear Inc (NASDAQ:MXL)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 6.69% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 81.45 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 87.29%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 81.45% institutions for MaxLinear Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at MXL for having 12.98 million shares of worth $261.5 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 15.5541 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 12.08 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 14.4748 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $243.35 million.

On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 4.76 shares of worth $45.97 million or 8.15% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 2.34 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $22.56 million in the company or a holder of 4.00% of company’s stock.