Ultra Clean (NASDAQ:UCTT) Reaches New 1-Year High – Time to Buy?

Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:UCTT)’s stock price hit a new 52-week high during trading on Wednesday . The stock traded as high as $40.43 and last traded at $40.18, with a volume of 943917 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $37.59.

Analyst Ratings Changes

UCTT has been the subject of several research reports. Weiss Ratings restated a “sell (d)” rating on shares of Ultra Clean in a report on Monday, December 29th. TD Cowen lifted their target price on shares of Ultra Clean from $30.00 to $35.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 29th. Needham & Company LLC upped their price target on shares of Ultra Clean from $30.00 to $35.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 29th. Finally, Oppenheimer reiterated an “outperform” rating on shares of Ultra Clean in a report on Wednesday, October 29th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $33.33.

Ultra Clean Stock Performance

The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $26.55 and a 200 day moving average price of $25.94. The company has a current ratio of 3.21, a quick ratio of 1.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.60. The firm has a market cap of $1.82 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -11.20, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.04 and a beta of 1.95.

Ultra Clean (NASDAQ:UCTT) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, October 28th. The semiconductor company reported $0.28 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.24 by $0.04. Ultra Clean had a positive return on equity of 5.15% and a negative net margin of 7.66%.The firm had revenue of $510.00 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $505.23 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.35 earnings per share. The company’s revenue was down 5.6% on a year-over-year basis. Ultra Clean has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 0.110-0.310 EPS. As a group, analysts predict that Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. will post 1.09 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Activity

In related news, Director David T. Ibnale sold 23,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, December 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $26.63, for a total transaction of $625,805.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 45,241 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,204,767.83. The trade was a 34.19% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Insiders own 1.90% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of Ultra Clean

Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Harbor Capital Advisors Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Ultra Clean by 13.3% in the 2nd quarter. Harbor Capital Advisors Inc. now owns 450,603 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $10,170,000 after purchasing an additional 52,964 shares during the last quarter. Dynamic Technology Lab Private Ltd acquired a new position in Ultra Clean in the second quarter valued at about $512,000. Coppell Advisory Solutions LLC bought a new stake in Ultra Clean during the second quarter worth about $2,137,000. Wedge Capital Management L L P NC bought a new stake in Ultra Clean during the third quarter worth about $3,174,000. Finally, Geode Capital Management LLC raised its stake in shares of Ultra Clean by 4.1% in the second quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 1,122,908 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $25,347,000 after acquiring an additional 44,041 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 96.06% of the company’s stock.

About Ultra Clean

Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc is a global supplier of critical consumables and process tools for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. The company specializes in precision parts cleaning, chemical–mechanical planarization (CMP) slurries, surface conditioning pads, and specialty components used in wafer fabrication and advanced packaging. Ultra Clean also provides assembly and test hardware, tooling, and automated modules designed to support complex front-end and back-end processes in semiconductor fabs.

Ultra Clean’s product portfolio encompasses a range of cleaning systems and consumables aimed at particle and film removal, as well as CMP slurries and pads that are engineered for uniform material removal and planarization.