Sandisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) Sets New 52-Week High – Should You Buy?

Sandisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDKGet Free Report)’s share price reached a new 52-week high on Tuesday . The stock traded as high as $1,070.66 and last traded at $1,070.20, with a volume of 12922570 shares. The stock had previously closed at $989.90.

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Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of Sandisk from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, January 31st. Arete Research upgraded shares of Sandisk from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Monday, April 13th. UBS Group set a $1,000.00 price target on shares of Sandisk in a research note on Monday, February 2nd. Evercore started coverage on shares of Sandisk in a research note on Monday, April 13th. They issued an “outperform” rating and a $1,200.00 price target on the stock. Finally, Bank of America upped their price target on shares of Sandisk from $900.00 to $1,080.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, April 17th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, seventeen have given a Buy rating, four have assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Sandisk presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $812.95.

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Sandisk Stock Up 6.2%

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a quick ratio of 1.92 and a current ratio of 3.11. The stock has a market cap of $157.08 billion, a P/E ratio of -140.21 and a beta of 5.04. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $743.66 and its 200-day simple moving average is $465.19.

Sandisk (NASDAQ:SNDKGet Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January 29th. The data storage provider reported $6.20 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.31 by $2.89. The firm had revenue of $3.03 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.67 billion. Sandisk had a negative net margin of 11.66% and a positive return on equity of 10.11%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 61.2% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, research analysts forecast that Sandisk Corporation will post 39.01 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Transactions at Sandisk

In other Sandisk news, Director Miyuki Suzuki sold 3,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated 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 completion of the sale, the director owned 9,907 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $6,216,939.71. The trade was a 26.11% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. 0.21% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Trading of Sandisk

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. GHP Investment Advisors Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Sandisk by 12.0% during the 1st quarter. GHP Investment Advisors Inc. now owns 121 shares of the data storage provider’s stock worth $77,000 after acquiring an additional 13 shares during the period. Blair William & Co. IL lifted its holdings in shares of Sandisk by 0.3% during the 4th quarter. Blair William & Co. IL now owns 5,287 shares of the data storage provider’s stock worth $1,255,000 after acquiring an additional 17 shares during the period. Larson Financial Group LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Sandisk by 20.2% during the 4th quarter. Larson Financial Group LLC now owns 220 shares of the data storage provider’s stock worth $52,000 after acquiring an additional 37 shares during the period. Composition Wealth LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Sandisk by 0.4% during the 4th quarter. Composition Wealth LLC now owns 10,299 shares of the data storage provider’s stock worth $2,445,000 after acquiring an additional 41 shares during the period. Finally, Westfuller Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Sandisk by 51.8% during the 4th quarter. Westfuller Advisors LLC now owns 126 shares of the data storage provider’s stock worth $30,000 after acquiring an additional 43 shares during the period.

About Sandisk

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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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