Diodes Incorporated (NASDAQ:DIOD) Receives Average Recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from Brokerages

Diodes Incorporated (NASDAQ:DIOD) has been given a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” by the six research firms that are currently covering the stock, Marketbeat.com reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, two have assigned a hold recommendation, two have issued a buy recommendation and one has assigned a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average 12 month price objective among brokerages that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $55.00.

A number of equities analysts have recently commented on the company. Wall Street Zen raised Diodes from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Sunday, August 31st. Zacks Research raised Diodes to a “strong sell” rating in a research report on Friday, August 8th. Benchmark reissued a “buy” rating and set a $62.00 price objective (up from $55.00) on shares of Diodes in a research report on Friday, June 13th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reissued a “hold (c-)” rating on shares of Diodes in a research report on Saturday, September 27th.

Diodes Trading Down 0.1%

NASDAQ DIOD opened at $52.58 on Friday. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $52.97 and a 200-day simple moving average of $48.56. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.01, a quick ratio of 2.04 and a current ratio of 3.33. Diodes has a one year low of $32.93 and a one year high of $67.40. The firm has a market cap of $2.44 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 38.38 and a beta of 1.63.

Diodes (NASDAQ:DIOD) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August 7th. The semiconductor company reported $0.32 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.24 by $0.08. Diodes had a return on equity of 2.98% and a net margin of 4.59%.The business had revenue of $366.20 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $352.08 million. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.33 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 14.5% on a year-over-year basis. Diodes has set its Q3 2025 guidance at EPS. Equities research analysts anticipate that Diodes will post 1.82 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity at Diodes

In related news, SVP Emily Yang sold 1,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, August 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $56.36, for a total transaction of $56,360.00. Following the completion of the sale, the senior vice president owned 59,479 shares in the company, valued at $3,352,236.44. The trade was a 1.65% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, CFO Brett R. Whitmire sold 2,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, August 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $55.90, for a total value of $111,800.00. Following the sale, the chief financial officer owned 48,777 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,726,634.30. The trade was a 3.94% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 1.90% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Diodes

Several institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in DIOD. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC raised its stake in Diodes by 77.4% during the 2nd quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 470 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $25,000 after acquiring an additional 205 shares in the last quarter. Verdence Capital Advisors LLC raised its stake in Diodes by 2.8% during the 2nd quarter. Verdence Capital Advisors LLC now owns 7,764 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $411,000 after acquiring an additional 213 shares in the last quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC raised its stake in Diodes by 52.0% during the 2nd quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC now owns 757 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $40,000 after acquiring an additional 259 shares in the last quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp raised its stake in Diodes by 85.8% during the 2nd quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp now owns 628 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $33,000 after acquiring an additional 290 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC raised its stake in Diodes by 1.9% during the 1st quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC now owns 15,696 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $678,000 after acquiring an additional 297 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 99.23% of the company’s stock.

About Diodes

Diodes Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and supplies application-specific standard products in the broad discrete, logic, analog, and mixed-signal semiconductor markets worldwide. The company offers discrete semiconductor products, such as MOSFETs, SiC MOSFETs; data line protection, power line protection, thyristers, USB Type-C protection, and transient voltage suppressors; Schottky, small signal switching, Zener, and SiC diodes; bridges, super barrier, Schottky, Schottky bridge, and fast/ultra-fast rectifiers; and bipolar, avalanche, gate driver, and pre-bias transistors.