Clearline Capital LP Buys New Stake in Sandisk Corporation $SNDK

Clearline Capital LP bought a new stake in Sandisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDKFree Report) during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund bought 100,072 shares of the data storage provider’s stock, valued at approximately $11,228,000. Clearline Capital LP owned 0.07% of Sandisk as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other large investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in SNDK. Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC acquired a new position in Sandisk during the 3rd quarter worth about $1,136,000. New York State Teachers Retirement System acquired a new position in Sandisk in the 3rd quarter valued at about $13,546,000. Sage Rhino Capital LLC acquired a new position in Sandisk in the 3rd quarter valued at about $587,000. Y Intercept Hong Kong Ltd purchased a new stake in Sandisk during the third quarter worth about $7,046,000. Finally, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. purchased a new stake in Sandisk during the third quarter worth about $514,000.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several research analysts have recently commented on the stock. Morgan Stanley set a $690.00 price objective on shares of Sandisk in a research note on Friday, January 30th. Wall Street Zen raised shares of Sandisk from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, January 31st. Barclays increased their target price on shares of Sandisk from $385.00 to $750.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Monday, February 2nd. Citigroup boosted their price target on shares of Sandisk from $490.00 to $750.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, February 2nd. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald upped their price objective on Sandisk from $550.00 to $800.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, January 30th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fourteen have issued a Buy rating, six have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $542.85.

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Sandisk News Summary

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Sandisk Stock Performance

Shares of Sandisk stock opened at $661.62 on Friday. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $541.07 and a 200-day simple moving average of $299.39. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a quick ratio of 1.92 and a current ratio of 3.11. Sandisk Corporation has a one year low of $27.89 and a one year high of $725.00. The company has a market cap of $97.66 billion and a PE ratio of -87.17.

Sandisk (NASDAQ:SNDKGet Free Report) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, January 29th. The data storage provider reported $6.20 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.31 by $2.89. Sandisk had a negative net margin of 11.66% and a positive return on equity of 10.11%. The firm had revenue of $3.03 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.67 billion. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 61.2% on a year-over-year basis.

Insider Activity at Sandisk

In other Sandisk news, Director Miyuki Suzuki sold 3,500 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, February 25th. The shares were sold at an average price of $627.53, for a total value of $2,196,355.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 9,907 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $6,216,939.71. This represents a 26.11% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this link. Corporate insiders own 0.21% of the company’s stock.

Sandisk Company Profile

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SanDisk Corporation offers flash storage solutions. The Company designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using flash memory, controller, firmware and software technologies. The Company operates through flash memory storage products segment. Its solutions include a range of solid state drives (SSD), embedded products, removable cards, universal serial bus (USB), drives, wireless media drives, digital media players, and wafers and components. It offers SSDs for client computing applications, which encompass desktop computers, notebook computers, tablets and other computing devices.

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