Amkor Technology, Inc. $AMKR Shares Purchased by Cwm LLC

Cwm LLC boosted its stake in Amkor Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMKR) by 85.3% during the second quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 51,940 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after acquiring an additional 23,914 shares during the quarter. Cwm LLC’s holdings in Amkor Technology were worth $1,090,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in AMKR. Royal Bank of Canada lifted its holdings in Amkor Technology by 100.6% in the 1st quarter. Royal Bank of Canada now owns 19,345 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $349,000 after purchasing an additional 3,454,012 shares in the last quarter. SW Investment Management LLC lifted its holdings in Amkor Technology by 89.3% in the 1st quarter. SW Investment Management LLC now owns 2,650,000 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $47,859,000 after purchasing an additional 1,250,000 shares in the last quarter. Invesco Ltd. lifted its holdings in Amkor Technology by 201.4% in the 1st quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 1,364,719 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $24,647,000 after purchasing an additional 911,886 shares in the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in Amkor Technology by 41.8% in the 1st quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 2,572,313 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $45,967,000 after purchasing an additional 757,956 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc. lifted its holdings in Amkor Technology by 111.4% in the 1st quarter. Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc. now owns 1,426,515 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $25,763,000 after purchasing an additional 751,730 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 42.76% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have weighed in on AMKR. Morgan Stanley restated an “equal weight” rating on shares of Amkor Technology in a report on Tuesday, July 29th. The Goldman Sachs Group raised their price objective on Amkor Technology from $22.00 to $26.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday, October 9th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price objective on Amkor Technology from $25.00 to $27.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 29th. Wall Street Zen upgraded Amkor Technology from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, September 5th. Finally, B. Riley lifted their price target on Amkor Technology from $18.00 to $24.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 29th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and seven have given a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Amkor Technology has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $27.11.

Amkor Technology Stock Down 0.4%

Shares of AMKR opened at $32.15 on Wednesday. The firm has a market cap of $7.95 billion, a P/E ratio of 26.14 and a beta of 1.98. Amkor Technology, Inc. has a 12-month low of $14.03 and a 12-month high of $33.54. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $27.14 and its 200 day moving average price is $22.27. The company has a current ratio of 1.89, a quick ratio of 1.70 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.28.

Amkor Technology (NASDAQ:AMKR) last released its earnings results on Monday, July 28th. The semiconductor company reported $0.22 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.16 by $0.06. The company had revenue of $1.51 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.42 billion. Amkor Technology had a return on equity of 7.23% and a net margin of 4.80%.Amkor Technology’s revenue was up 3.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.27 EPS. Amkor Technology has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 0.340-0.480 EPS. On average, sell-side analysts forecast that Amkor Technology, Inc. will post 1.47 earnings per share for the current year.

Amkor Technology Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, September 23rd. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, September 3rd were given a $0.0827 dividend. This represents a $0.33 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.0%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, September 3rd. Amkor Technology’s payout ratio is currently 26.83%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, major shareholder John T. Kim bought 441,589 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, August 1st. The stock was bought at an average cost of $21.85 per share, with a total value of $9,648,719.65. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 3,789,479 shares in the company, valued at $82,800,116.15. The trade was a 13.19% increase in their position. The acquisition was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CEO Guillaume Marie Jean Rutten sold 10,000 shares of Amkor Technology stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, October 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $30.74, for a total value of $307,400.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 356,699 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $10,964,927.26. This represents a 2.73% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 46,792 shares of company stock worth $1,255,900 over the last 90 days. 26.90% of the stock is owned by insiders.

About Amkor Technology

Amkor Technology, Inc provides outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services in the United States, Japan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers turnkey packaging and test services, including semiconductor wafer bump, wafer probe, wafer back-grind, package design, packaging, system-level and final test, and drop shipment services; flip chip scale package products for smartphones, tablets, and other mobile consumer electronic devices; flip chip stacked chip scale packages that are used to stack memory digital baseband, and as applications processors in mobile devices; flip-chip ball grid array packages for various networking, storage, computing, automotive, and consumer applications; and memory products for system memory or platform data storage.