Silicon Motion Technology (SIMO +33.08%) stock is posting monster gains in Wednesday’s trading. The company’s share price was up 30.6% as of 12:45 p.m. ET and had been up as much as 40.6% earlier in the session.
Silicon Motion published its first-quarter results before the market opened this morning and reported results that crushed the market’s expectations. Sales and earnings far exceeded Wall Street’s forecasts, and the company issued encouraging commentary on the state of the business.
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Silicon Motion just served up a blockbuster quarter
Silicon Motion recorded non-GAAP (adjusted) earnings per share of $1.58 on sales of $342.1 million, dramatically outperforming the average Wall Street estimate’s call for per-share earnings of $1.30 on sales of roughly $299.6 million. Compared to the prior-year quarter, the company’s revenue was up 105.5%. Meanwhile, adjusted earnings per share were up approximately 163% year over year. It was a blowout quarter for the company, and investors are rewarding the stock today.
Silicon Motion Technology
Today’s Change
(33.08%) $49.35
Current Price
$198.53
Key Data Points
Market Cap
$5.1B
Day’s Range
$192.80 – $209.80
52wk Range
$48.31 – $209.80
Volume
2.7M
Avg Vol
624K
Gross Margin
48.27%
Dividend Yield
1.34%
What’s next for Silicon Motion?
In addition to Q1 results that came in far better than anticipated, Silicon Motion also issued guidance that crushed expectations. Management’s midpoint guidance for the current quarter calls for sales of roughly $402 million — far ahead of the previous average analyst estimate’s call for sales of $307 million in the period. Silicon Motion is benefiting from very high demand in the memory and storage markets, and the company looks poised to continue benefiting from these trends in the near term.
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