Ultra Clean (NASDAQ:UCTT) Director Emily Liggett Sells 8,198 Shares

Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:UCTT) Director Emily Liggett sold 8,198 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of $92.18, for a total value of $755,691.64. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 38,152 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,516,851.36. This represents a 17.69% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink.

Ultra Clean Stock Down 4.7%

UCTT opened at $87.29 on Friday. The stock has a market cap of $3.91 billion, a PE ratio of -20.35, a P/E/G ratio of 1.28 and a beta of 1.94. The company has a quick ratio of 1.72, a current ratio of 3.07 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.86. Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. has a 52 week low of $18.93 and a 52 week high of $92.29. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $74.85 and its 200 day simple moving average is $51.74.

Ultra Clean (NASDAQ:UCTT) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, April 28th. The semiconductor company reported $0.31 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.27 by $0.04. The business had revenue of $533.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $525.28 million. Ultra Clean had a positive return on equity of 4.28% and a negative net margin of 9.38%.The firm’s revenue was up 2.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.28 earnings per share. Ultra Clean has set its Q2 2026 guidance at 0.440-0.600 EPS. As a group, research analysts expect that Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. will post 2.04 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

UCTT has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. Oppenheimer raised their price objective on Ultra Clean from $85.00 to $100.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, April 29th. Craig Hallum reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $100.00 price objective on shares of Ultra Clean in a research note on Tuesday, February 24th. TD Cowen raised their price objective on Ultra Clean from $70.00 to $100.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, April 29th. Zacks Research raised Ultra Clean from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Monday. Finally, Wall Street Zen raised Ultra Clean from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, May 2nd. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, four have given a Buy rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Ultra Clean has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $104.40.

Institutional Trading of Ultra Clean

Institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its position in Ultra Clean by 6.2% during the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 4,990,724 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $126,415,000 after purchasing an additional 293,048 shares during the period. Invesco Ltd. increased its position in Ultra Clean by 63.1% during the 4th quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 3,399,834 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $86,118,000 after purchasing an additional 1,315,407 shares during the period. State Street Corp increased its position in Ultra Clean by 5.0% during the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 1,852,482 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $46,923,000 after purchasing an additional 87,931 shares during the period. Royce & Associates LP increased its position in Ultra Clean by 7.1% during the 3rd quarter. Royce & Associates LP now owns 1,107,416 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $30,177,000 after purchasing an additional 73,872 shares during the period. Finally, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. increased its position in Ultra Clean by 5.7% during the 4th quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 821,088 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $20,798,000 after purchasing an additional 43,987 shares during the period. 96.06% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

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.