Hsbc Holdings PLC Has $344,000 Stock Position in Diodes Incorporated $DIOD

Hsbc Holdings PLC lifted its holdings in shares of Diodes Incorporated (NASDAQ:DIOD) by 13.1% during the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 8,094 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after purchasing an additional 935 shares during the quarter. Hsbc Holdings PLC’s holdings in Diodes were worth $344,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other hedge funds also recently modified their holdings of the company. Signaturefd LLC boosted its holdings in Diodes by 170.1% in the 1st quarter. Signaturefd LLC now owns 597 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $26,000 after purchasing an additional 376 shares during the period. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd acquired a new stake in shares of Diodes during the 1st quarter worth about $70,000. Brevan Howard Capital Management LP acquired a new stake in Diodes in the 4th quarter valued at about $251,000. Y Intercept Hong Kong Ltd acquired a new stake in Diodes in the 1st quarter valued at about $212,000. Finally, Integrated Investment Consultants LLC acquired a new stake in Diodes in the 1st quarter valued at about $227,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.23% of the company’s stock.

Insider Transactions at Diodes

In related news, CFO Brett R. Whitmire sold 2,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, August 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of $55.90, for a total transaction of $111,800.00. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 48,777 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,726,634.30. This trade represents a 3.94% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, SVP Emily Yang sold 1,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, August 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $56.36, for a total transaction of $56,360.00. Following the transaction, the senior vice president directly owned 59,479 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,352,236.44. This represents a 1.65% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Company insiders own 2.30% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

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

Diodes Price Performance

Shares of DIOD opened at $52.65 on Thursday. The company has a market cap of $2.45 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 38.43 and a beta of 1.55. Diodes Incorporated has a 1-year low of $32.93 and a 1-year high of $67.40. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $53.57 and its 200 day simple moving average is $48.07. The company has a current ratio of 3.33, a quick ratio of 2.04 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.01.

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

Diodes declared that its board has approved a share repurchase program on Thursday, May 8th that allows the company to buyback $100.00 million in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization allows the semiconductor company to repurchase up to 5.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company’s board believes its shares are undervalued.

Diodes Profile

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.