Czech National Bank Makes New Investment in Sandisk Corporation $SNDK

Czech National Bank bought a new stake in Sandisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDKFree Report) during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The firm bought 36,711 shares of the data storage provider’s stock, valued at approximately $8,714,000.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the business. Vanguard Group Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Sandisk during the 3rd quarter worth $1,970,388,000. State Street Corp bought a new position in Sandisk in the third quarter valued at about $491,053,000. Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership bought a new position in Sandisk in the third quarter valued at about $297,293,000. Bank of America Corp DE acquired a new position in Sandisk during the third quarter worth about $190,425,000. Finally, AQR Capital Management LLC bought a new position in shares of Sandisk in the third quarter worth about $163,057,000.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of equities research analysts have recently weighed in on SNDK shares. Citigroup raised their price target on shares of Sandisk from $750.00 to $875.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, March 19th. Barclays increased their price objective on shares of Sandisk from $385.00 to $750.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Monday, February 2nd. Susquehanna raised their target price on shares of Sandisk from $250.00 to $300.00 and gave the company a “positive” rating in a research report on Monday, December 8th. The Goldman Sachs Group boosted their target price on shares of Sandisk from $320.00 to $700.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, January 30th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. initiated coverage on shares of Sandisk in a report on Monday, December 8th. They set a “neutral” rating and a $235.00 price target for the company. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifteen have given a Buy rating, six have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Sandisk currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $594.48.

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Sandisk Stock Performance

Sandisk stock opened at $615.83 on Friday. The business has a 50 day moving average of $606.69 and a 200-day moving average of $342.26. The company has a market capitalization of $90.90 billion and a P/E ratio of -81.14. Sandisk Corporation has a 1 year low of $27.89 and a 1 year high of $777.60. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a current ratio of 3.11 and a quick ratio of 1.92.

Sandisk (NASDAQ:SNDKGet Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, January 29th. The data storage provider reported $6.20 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.31 by $2.89. Sandisk had a negative net margin of 11.66% and a positive return on equity of 10.11%. The business had revenue of $3.03 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.67 billion. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 61.2% on a year-over-year basis.

Insider Activity at Sandisk

In other news, Director Miyuki Suzuki sold 3,500 shares of Sandisk stock in a transaction on Wednesday, February 25th. The shares were sold at an average price of $627.53, for a total transaction of $2,196,355.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 9,907 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,216,939.71. The trade was a 26.11% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Company insiders own 0.21% of the company’s stock.

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SanDisk Corporation offers flash storage solutions. The Company designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using flash memory, controller, firmware and software technologies. The Company operates through flash memory storage products segment. Its solutions include a range of solid state drives (SSD), embedded products, removable cards, universal serial bus (USB), drives, wireless media drives, digital media players, and wafers and components. It offers SSDs for client computing applications, which encompass desktop computers, notebook computers, tablets and other computing devices.

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