American Century Companies Inc. Has $15.10 Million Stake in Diodes Incorporated $DIOD

American Century Companies Inc. trimmed its stake in shares of Diodes Incorporated (NASDAQ:DIOD) by 24.9% during the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 349,805 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 116,019 shares during the period. American Century Companies Inc. owned about 0.75% of Diodes worth $15,101,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in the stock. Earnest Partners LLC raised its holdings in shares of Diodes by 0.4% during the fourth quarter. Earnest Partners LLC now owns 2,119,097 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $130,685,000 after acquiring an additional 7,552 shares during the period. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. increased its stake in Diodes by 5.3% in the 1st quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 723,733 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $31,244,000 after buying an additional 36,488 shares during the last quarter. Northern Trust Corp increased its stake in Diodes by 9.5% in the 4th quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 570,564 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $35,187,000 after buying an additional 49,377 shares during the last quarter. Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC increased its stake in Diodes by 14.2% in the 4th quarter. Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC now owns 552,054 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $34,045,000 after buying an additional 68,823 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Global Alpha Capital Management Ltd. increased its stake in Diodes by 107.6% in the 1st quarter. Global Alpha Capital Management Ltd. now owns 539,170 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $23,276,000 after buying an additional 279,400 shares during the last quarter. 99.23% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Diodes Stock Performance

Shares of DIOD opened at $56.24 on Monday. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $53.00 and a 200-day moving average of $47.91. Diodes Incorporated has a one year low of $32.93 and a one year high of $72.76. The company has a market cap of $2.61 billion, a PE ratio of 41.05 and a beta of 1.47. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.01, a current ratio of 3.33 and a quick ratio of 2.04.

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

Diodes announced that its board has initiated a share buyback plan on Thursday, May 8th that allows the company to repurchase $100.00 million in shares. This repurchase authorization allows the semiconductor company to buy up to 5.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are generally a sign that the company’s leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities research analysts have issued reports on DIOD shares. Zacks Research upgraded shares of Diodes to a “strong sell” rating in a research note on Friday, August 8th. Wall Street Zen lowered shares of Diodes from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday. Finally, Benchmark reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $62.00 price target (up from $55.00) on shares of Diodes in a research note on Friday, June 13th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, two have assigned a Buy rating, one has assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $55.00.

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.