AU Optronics Corp (AUO) Earning Somewhat Negative Press Coverage, Analysis Finds

News stories about AU Optronics Corp (NYSE:AUO) have been trending somewhat negative this week, according to Accern Sentiment. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. AU Optronics Corp earned a media sentiment score of -0.01 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave news articles about the semiconductor company an impact score of 47.2416548348456 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock’s share price in the next several days.

Here are some of the news articles that may have impacted Accern Sentiment Analysis’s rankings:

• Stock to Track: Au Optronics Corp (AUO) – Post Registrar (postregistrar.com)
• International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) Is Attracting Massive Concentrations By Liquidation- AU Optronics Corp … – Investing News Update (investingbizz.com)
• AU Optronics Corp American Depo (NYSE:AUO) Sees Significantly Higher Trading Volume – First News 24 (firstnewspaper24.com)
• AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) is now worth at $3.87 while CACI International Inc (CACI) noted a price swing of 1.46% – Stocks Gallery (stocksgallery.com)
• Trending Stocks – ResMed Inc. (NYSE:RMD), AU Optronics Corp (ADR) (NYSE:AUO) – Stock Watch (stocksnewstimes.com)

Several brokerages have recently weighed in on AUO. Credit Suisse Group reaffirmed a “neutral” rating on shares of AU Optronics Corp in a research report on Wednesday, July 12th. Zacks Investment Research cut shares of AU Optronics Corp from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Wednesday, June 21st. UBS AG cut shares of AU Optronics Corp from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research report on Thursday, July 6th. CLSA began coverage on shares of AU Optronics Corp in a research report on Friday, May 19th. They issued a “buy” rating for the company. Finally, BidaskClub cut shares of AU Optronics Corp from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Saturday, July 8th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, four have assigned a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. The stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $4.38.

Shares of AU Optronics Corp (NYSE AUO) traded up 1.81% during midday trading on Friday, hitting $3.94. 2,219,775 shares of the stock traded hands. AU Optronics Corp has a 52-week low of $3.44 and a 52-week high of $4.95. The company has a market cap of $3.79 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 3.31 and a beta of 0.50. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $4.16 and a 200-day moving average of $4.00.

AU Optronics Corp (NYSE:AUO) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 26th. The semiconductor company reported $0.34 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.36 by $0.02. AU Optronics Corp had a return on equity of 17.46% and a net margin of 9.48%. The firm had revenue of $84.41 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $87.09 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned ($0.06) EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 5.4% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, equities analysts predict that AU Optronics Corp will post $1.13 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

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AU Optronics Corp Company Profile

AU Optronics Corp. is a thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel provider. The Company operates in two business segments: display business and solar business. Through Display business segment, the Company designs, develops, manufactures, assembles and markets flat panel displays and most of its products are TFT-LCD panels.