Photronics, Inc (PLAB) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $18.27, with 0.46 million shares of worth about $8.39 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -31.03% during that period and on June 18, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -0.71%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 58.71M shares, out of which, 57.69M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -4.55% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -10.35%. Year-to-date (YTD), PLAB shares are showing a performance of -22.45% which decreased to -25.70% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $16.46 but also hit the highest price of $31.60 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Photronics, Inc shares is 741.96K. The stock is currently trading -0.73% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -2.37% for SMA50 and it goes to -17.46% lower than SMA200.
Photronics, Inc (NASDAQ: PLAB) currently have 58.71M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 93.63% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $1.10B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.38. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 9.50, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.92 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 4.76 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.00. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for PLAB, volatility over the week remained 2.21% while standing at 4.50% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -16.26% while it is estimated to increase by 15.53% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Craig Hallum on June 11, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $32 to it. On April 11, 2022, Stifel Upgrade their recommendations, while on February 25, 2021, Stifel Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $13. Stock get a Buy rating from Stifel on September 11, 2020.
