Insider Selling: Amkor Technology (NASDAQ:AMKR) Director Sells $928,800.00 in Stock

Amkor Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMKR) Director Gil Tily sold 20,000 shares of Amkor Technology stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $46.44, for a total value of $928,800.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 123,806 shares in the company, valued at approximately $5,749,550.64. This represents a 13.91% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link.

Amkor Technology Price Performance

Shares of Amkor Technology stock opened at $39.30 on Friday. The business has a 50 day moving average of $35.58 and a 200 day moving average of $27.76. Amkor Technology, Inc. has a 52 week low of $14.03 and a 52 week high of $47.28. The company has a market cap of $9.71 billion, a PE ratio of 31.44 and a beta of 1.99. The company has a quick ratio of 1.60, a current ratio of 1.77 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29.

Amkor Technology (NASDAQ:AMKR) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October 27th. The semiconductor company reported $0.51 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.42 by $0.09. Amkor Technology had a net margin of 4.77% and a return on equity of 7.26%. The business had revenue of $1.99 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.93 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.49 EPS. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 6.7% compared to the same quarter last year. Amkor Technology has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 0.380-0.480 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that Amkor Technology, Inc. will post 1.47 earnings per share for the current year.

Amkor Technology Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, December 23rd. Investors of record on Wednesday, December 3rd will be paid a $0.0835 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 3rd. This is an increase from Amkor Technology’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.08. This represents a $0.33 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.9%. Amkor Technology’s payout ratio is currently 26.40%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several analysts have weighed in on the company. Wall Street Zen cut Amkor Technology from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Saturday, December 6th. DA Davidson raised their target price on Amkor Technology from $30.00 to $40.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, October 28th. Needham & Company LLC lifted their price target on Amkor Technology from $32.00 to $37.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 28th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Amkor Technology in a report on Wednesday, October 8th. Finally, Zacks Research lowered Amkor Technology from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, November 25th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and eight have given a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Amkor Technology currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $29.63.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Vanguard Group Inc. grew its stake in shares of Amkor Technology by 2.3% in the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 16,025,236 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $289,416,000 after acquiring an additional 361,010 shares during the last quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP raised its position in shares of Amkor Technology by 2.8% in the 1st quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 13,398,430 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $241,980,000 after purchasing an additional 365,975 shares during the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC boosted its stake in Amkor Technology by 18.4% in the 3rd quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 4,211,529 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $119,607,000 after purchasing an additional 653,489 shares in the last quarter. American Century Companies Inc. grew its position in Amkor Technology by 0.5% during the 3rd quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 3,835,987 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $108,942,000 after purchasing an additional 17,656 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Earnest Partners LLC increased its stake in Amkor Technology by 0.3% during the 1st quarter. Earnest Partners LLC now owns 2,334,787 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $42,166,000 after purchasing an additional 6,216 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 42.76% of the company’s stock.

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.