MaxLinear Inc (NASDAQ: MXL) Is Worth A Shot If You’re A Risk-Capital Investor

In the last trading session, 1.35 million MaxLinear Inc (NASDAQ:MXL) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.65. With the company’s per share price at $10.05 changed hands at -$0.1 or -0.99% during last session, the market valuation stood at $868.05M. MXL’s last price was a discount, traded about -164.58% off its 52-week high of $26.59. The share price had its 52-week low at $8.35, which suggests the last value was 16.92% up since then. When we look at MaxLinear Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.79 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.94 million.

Analysts gave the MaxLinear Inc (MXL) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.25. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 12 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 4 recommended MXL as a Hold, 8 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. MaxLinear Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.02.

MaxLinear Inc (NASDAQ:MXL) trade information

Instantly MXL was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -3.46%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -49.19%, with the 5-day performance at -3.46% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, MaxLinear Inc (NASDAQ:MXL) is -8.55% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 5.37 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.72 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 18, meaning bulls need an upside of 44.17% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, MXL’s forecast low is 11 with 25 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -148.76% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -9.45% for it to hit the projected low.

MaxLinear Inc (MXL) estimates and forecasts

Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 22.89% up from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 11 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 104.94M. 11 analysts are of the opinion that MaxLinear Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 116.07M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 91.99M and 81.1M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 14.07%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 43.12%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -59.94%. The 2025 estimates are for MaxLinear Inc earnings to increase by 130.91%.

MXL Dividends

MaxLinear Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Apr-22.

MaxLinear Inc (NASDAQ:MXL)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 6.69% of MaxLinear Inc shares while 81.48% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 87.33%. There are 81.48% institutions holding the MaxLinear Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 15.5541% of the shares, roughly 12.98 million MXL shares worth $261.5 million.

VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 14.4748% or 12.08 million shares worth $243.35 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . With 4.76 shares estimated at $47.85 million under it, the former controlled 8.15% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 4.00% of the shares, roughly 2.34 shares worth around $23.49 million.