GlobalFoundries Inc. $GFS Shares Acquired by SG Americas Securities LLC

SG Americas Securities LLC lifted its stake in shares of GlobalFoundries Inc. (NASDAQ:GFS) by 997.6% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 88,717 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 80,634 shares during the period. SG Americas Securities LLC’s holdings in GlobalFoundries were worth $3,180,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other large investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Invesco Ltd. increased its position in shares of GlobalFoundries by 10.1% in the 2nd quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 2,744,519 shares of the company’s stock valued at $104,841,000 after acquiring an additional 252,772 shares during the period. Pacer Advisors Inc. increased its holdings in shares of GlobalFoundries by 0.6% in the third quarter. Pacer Advisors Inc. now owns 1,874,440 shares of the company’s stock valued at $67,180,000 after purchasing an additional 11,648 shares during the period. AQR Capital Management LLC raised its stake in shares of GlobalFoundries by 852.9% in the second quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 972,454 shares of the company’s stock worth $37,148,000 after purchasing an additional 870,406 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of GlobalFoundries by 4.0% during the second quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 967,202 shares of the company’s stock worth $36,947,000 after purchasing an additional 37,026 shares during the period. Finally, Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. increased its holdings in GlobalFoundries by 6.0% in the 2nd quarter. Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. now owns 962,273 shares of the company’s stock worth $36,759,000 after buying an additional 54,827 shares during the period.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several brokerages have commented on GFS. Citigroup decreased their price objective on shares of GlobalFoundries from $37.00 to $35.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, November 13th. Wedbush lowered shares of GlobalFoundries from an “outperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and lowered their price target for the company from $42.00 to $40.00 in a report on Wednesday, December 31st. Evercore ISI lifted their price objective on GlobalFoundries from $43.00 to $45.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 13th. BNP Paribas Exane started coverage on GlobalFoundries in a report on Friday, October 24th. They issued an “outperform” rating and a $45.00 price objective for the company. Finally, Zacks Research lowered GlobalFoundries from a “hold” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a report on Thursday, January 1st. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, nine have given a Hold rating and three have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $40.46.

GlobalFoundries Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ GFS opened at $39.89 on Tuesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13, a quick ratio of 2.24 and a current ratio of 3.03. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $36.25 and a 200 day moving average of $35.83. The firm has a market cap of $22.06 billion, a PE ratio of -443.17, a PEG ratio of 1.67 and a beta of 1.49. GlobalFoundries Inc. has a one year low of $29.77 and a one year high of $47.69.

GlobalFoundries (NASDAQ:GFS) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, November 12th. The company reported $0.34 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.39 by ($0.05). The company had revenue of $1.69 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.68 billion. GlobalFoundries had a negative net margin of 0.65% and a positive return on equity of 6.64%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was down 2.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.41 EPS. GlobalFoundries has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 0.420-0.520 EPS. As a group, research analysts predict that GlobalFoundries Inc. will post 1.31 EPS for the current fiscal year.

GlobalFoundries Company Profile

GlobalFoundries, Inc (NASDAQ: GFS) is a leading contract semiconductor manufacturer that provides wafer fabrication and related services to semiconductor companies and systems manufacturers. The company operates as a pure-play foundry, producing integrated circuits across a range of process technologies for customers in markets such as automotive, communications, consumer electronics, industrial, and aerospace. Its service offering spans process development, manufacturing, test and packaging support, and design enablement including process design kits (PDKs) and intellectual property (IP) libraries to help customers bring designs to production.

GlobalFoundries focuses on a portfolio of differentiated and specialty process nodes, offering technologies for radio-frequency (RF) and wireless, analog and mixed-signal, power management, embedded non-volatile memory, and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process families.