What Happened?
Shares of semiconductor maker Penguin Solutions (NASDAQ: PENG) jumped 8.2% in the afternoon session after several Wall Street analysts raised their price targets on the company's stock. The bullish sentiment from Wall Street follows the company's third-quarter earnings report released the previous day. While Penguin Solutions reported a 7.9% year-over-year increase in revenue to $324 million, it slightly missed consensus estimates. However, the company posted a strong beat on non-GAAP earnings per share, surpassing analyst expectations. Buoyed by the solid earnings performance, particularly driven by its AI-related strategy, Penguin Solutions raised its full-year fiscal 2025 non-GAAP EPS guidance.
In response to the results and outlook, Goldman Sachs lifted its price target on Penguin to $25.00 from $22.50, maintaining a "Buy" rating. Similarly, JPMorgan increased its price target to $21.00, and analysts at Needham and JMP Securities reiterated their "Buy" and "Market Outperform" ratings, respectively.
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What Is The Market Telling Us
Penguin Solutions’s shares are very volatile and have had 28 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today’s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business.
Penguin Solutions is up 19.2% since the beginning of the year, but at $23.03 per share, it is still trading 21.6% below its 52-week high of $29.35 from July 2024. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of Penguin Solutions’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at an investment worth $1,612.
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