Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ:SLAB) Updates Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ:SLAB) issued an update on its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of -0.190-0.010 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of -0.080. The company issued revenue guidance of $170.0 million-$185.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $175.6 million. Silicon Laboratories also updated its Q1 guidance to $(0.19)-0.01 EPS.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

SLAB has been the subject of a number of research analyst reports. Barclays increased their target price on shares of Silicon Laboratories from $75.00 to $120.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Friday, January 17th. Stifel Nicolaus raised their target price on Silicon Laboratories from $135.00 to $145.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, January 6th. KeyCorp lifted their price objective on shares of Silicon Laboratories from $115.00 to $160.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, January 22nd. StockNews.com upgraded shares of Silicon Laboratories to a “sell” rating in a research note on Friday, November 8th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut their price objective on shares of Silicon Laboratories from $150.00 to $135.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, November 5th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating and six have issued a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $136.20.

Silicon Laboratories Stock Up 7.0 %

SLAB stock traded up $9.52 during midday trading on Wednesday, reaching $146.12. The company had a trading volume of 475,299 shares, compared to its average volume of 340,853. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $127.54 and a 200 day moving average price of $116.52. The firm has a market capitalization of $4.74 billion, a PE ratio of -19.75 and a beta of 1.16. Silicon Laboratories has a fifty-two week low of $94.00 and a fifty-two week high of $154.91.

Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ:SLAB) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February 4th. The semiconductor company reported ($0.11) EPS for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.11). Silicon Laboratories had a negative return on equity of 12.60% and a negative net margin of 46.93%. The company had revenue of $166.25 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $166.09 million. During the same period last year, the company earned ($1.19) earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 91.4% compared to the same quarter last year. Research analysts predict that Silicon Laboratories will post -3.56 EPS for the current year.

Insider Transactions at Silicon Laboratories

In related news, Director William G. Bock sold 2,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, January 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $140.77, for a total transaction of $281,540.00. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 32,115 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $4,520,828.55. The trade was a 5.86 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Corporate insiders own 1.72% of the company’s stock.

Silicon Laboratories Company Profile

Silicon Laboratories Inc, a fabless semiconductor company, provides various analog-intensive mixed-signal solutions in the United States, China, Taiwan, and internationally. The company's products include wireless microcontrollers and sensor products. Its products are used in various electronic products in a range of applications for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), including industrial automation and control, smart buildings, access control, HVAC control, and industrial wearables and power tools; smart cities applications, such as smart metering, smart street lighting, renewable energy, electric vehicle supply equipment, and smart agriculture; commercial IoT applications, including smart lighting, asset tracking, electronic shelf labels, theft protection, and enterprise access points; smart home applications, comprising home automation/security systems, smart speakers, smart lighting, HVAC control, smart cameras, smart appliances, smart home sensing, smart locks, and window/blind controls; and connected health applications, including diabetes management, consumer health and fitness, elderly care, patient monitoring, and activity tracking; as well as in commercial building automation, consumer electronics, and medical instrumentation.