Emily Yang Sells 950 Shares of Diodes (NASDAQ:DIOD) Stock

Diodes Incorporated (NASDAQ:DIOD) SVP Emily Yang sold 950 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, February 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $60.85, for a total value of $57,807.50. Following the completion of the sale, the senior vice president owned 74,032 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $4,504,847.20. This trade represents a 1.27% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website.

Diodes Stock Up 1.5%

Diodes stock traded up $0.90 during midday trading on Wednesday, hitting $59.28. 269,534 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 309,149. The company has a market cap of $2.75 billion, a PE ratio of 42.96 and a beta of 1.66. Diodes Incorporated has a fifty-two week low of $32.93 and a fifty-two week high of $61.50. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $53.01 and its 200-day moving average price is $52.40. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.01, a current ratio of 3.32 and a quick ratio of 2.09.

Diodes (NASDAQ:DIOD) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November 6th. The semiconductor company reported $0.37 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.38 by ($0.01). Diodes had a net margin of 4.49% and a return on equity of 2.81%. The firm had revenue of $392.17 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $392.17 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.43 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 12.0% on a year-over-year basis. On average, research analysts predict that Diodes Incorporated will post 1.82 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Key Diodes News

Here are the key news stories impacting Diodes this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Diodes launched the API772x RobustISO isolation devices, expanding its isolation product portfolio for industrial and medical markets — a product cadence that can support near‑term revenue growth and design wins. API772x launch
• Positive Sentiment: Diodes introduced a 2.5Gbps MIPI D‑PHY ReDriver aimed at automotive ADAS applications — a market with strong content growth potential that could help ASPs and design‑win momentum in auto electronics. MIPI D‑PHY ReDriver
• Positive Sentiment: Broader media coverage explaining the importance of diodes and power components may boost investor and buyer awareness of the sector, supporting demand narratives for DIOD’s product lines. Industry explainer
• Neutral Sentiment: Short‑interest data published for early February shows 0 reported shorted shares and NaN changes — this appears to be a data anomaly, so it provides no clear signal on bearish positioning. (Reported average volume used was ~295k shares.)
• Neutral Sentiment: RIR Power Electronics announced advanced SiC Merged‑PiN Schottky diodes for high‑efficiency power systems — an indication of competitive activity and technology progress across the power‑diode market, but not a direct Diodes product announcement. RIR SiC MPS diodes
• Negative Sentiment: Multiple insiders sold shares in early February, which can pressure sentiment despite routine reasons for selling. CEO Gary Yu sold 2,900 shares (~$176.5k at ~$60.85), CFO Brett Whitmire sold 830 shares (~$50.5k), SVP Emily Yang sold 950 shares (~$57.8k), and insider Jin Zhao sold 525 shares (~$31.1k). Combined, these filings show several executive‑level reductions in holdings and are disclosed in SEC filings. CEO sale CFO sale SVP sale Insider sale

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Diodes

Institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. AQR Capital Management LLC boosted its holdings in Diodes by 12.4% in the first quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 6,028 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $260,000 after purchasing an additional 663 shares during the period. MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. boosted its holdings in shares of Diodes by 4.6% in the 1st quarter. MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. now owns 27,148 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,172,000 after buying an additional 1,186 shares during the period. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of Diodes by 13.8% in the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 391,005 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $16,880,000 after buying an additional 47,500 shares during the period. Woodline Partners LP bought a new stake in shares of Diodes during the 1st quarter valued at about $559,000. Finally, UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC raised its stake in Diodes by 6.8% during the first quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC now owns 104,719 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $4,521,000 after acquiring an additional 6,708 shares during the period. 99.23% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities analysts have weighed in on the stock. Wall Street Zen cut shares of Diodes from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Saturday, November 8th. Zacks Research raised Diodes from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, January 5th. Weiss Ratings upgraded Diodes from a “sell (d+)” rating to a “hold (c-)” rating in a report on Wednesday, January 21st. Finally, Truist Financial increased their target price on Diodes from $51.00 to $54.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, December 19th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and three have given a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, Diodes has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $55.33.

Diodes Company Profile

Diodes Incorporated (NASDAQ: DIOD) is a global manufacturer and supplier of high‐performance discrete, logic, analog and mixed‐signal semiconductor products. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, the company designs and develops a broad range of discrete components, standard logic functions, power management circuits, interface products and array products. Its portfolio includes rectifiers, MOSFETs, general‐purpose diodes, voltage regulators, comparators, buffers and other building blocks for electronic systems.

Diodes Incorporated serves a variety of end markets such as automotive, computing, communications, consumer electronics, industrial and lighting.