Stratos Wealth Partners LTD. Buys New Stake in Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (NASDAQ:AOSL)

Stratos Wealth Partners LTD. bought a new position in Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (NASDAQ:AOSL - Free Report) during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm bought 17,975 shares of the semiconductor company's stock, valued at approximately $666,000. Stratos Wealth Partners LTD. owned 0.06% of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in AOSL. Truvestments Capital LLC acquired a new position in shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor during the 3rd quarter valued at $45,000. Hollencrest Capital Management purchased a new position in Alpha and Omega Semiconductor in the third quarter valued at about $56,000. Farther Finance Advisors LLC lifted its stake in shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor by 10,937.5% during the third quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC now owns 1,766 shares of the semiconductor company's stock worth $66,000 after purchasing an additional 1,750 shares in the last quarter. Eastern Bank purchased a new stake in shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor in the third quarter worth about $174,000. Finally, HighTower Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor in the third quarter valued at about $205,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 78.97% of the company's stock.

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Stock Up 0.5 %

NASDAQ AOSL traded up $0.19 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $34.74. 398,110 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 702,074. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $39.81 and a 200-day simple moving average of $37.31. Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited has a 1-year low of $19.38 and a 1-year high of $53.29. The company has a market cap of $1.01 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -43.43 and a beta of 2.47. The company has a current ratio of 2.72, a quick ratio of 1.44 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03.

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (NASDAQ:AOSL - Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 5th. The semiconductor company reported ($0.18) earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.08 by ($0.26). Alpha and Omega Semiconductor had a negative return on equity of 0.23% and a negative net margin of 3.46%. As a group, equities research analysts expect that Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited will post -0.67 EPS for the current year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Alpha and Omega Semiconductor news, CFO Yifan Liang sold 31,004 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, December 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $49.21, for a total transaction of $1,525,706.84. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer now owns 265,175 shares of the company's stock, valued at $13,049,261.75. This trade represents a 10.47 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Lucas S. Chang sold 12,497 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, December 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $41.46, for a total value of $518,125.62. Following the completion of the sale, the director now owns 25,204 shares of the company's stock, valued at $1,044,957.84. This trade represents a 33.15 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 53,124 shares of company stock valued at $2,500,685 in the last ninety days. Corporate insiders own 16.90% of the company's stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research firms recently commented on AOSL. Benchmark boosted their price target on Alpha and Omega Semiconductor from $40.00 to $42.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research report on Thursday, February 6th. Stifel Nicolaus reduced their target price on shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor from $34.00 to $27.00 and set a "sell" rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, November 6th. StockNews.com upgraded shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating in a research note on Thursday. Finally, B. Riley dropped their price target on shares of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor from $50.00 to $47.00 and set a "buy" rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, November 5th.

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Company Profile

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited designs, develops, and supplies power semiconductor products for computing, consumer electronics, communication, and industrial applications in Hong Kong, China, South Korea, the United States, and internationally. It offers power discrete products, including metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET), SRFETs, XSFET, electrostatic discharge, protected MOSFETs, high and mid-voltage MOSFETs, and insulated gate bipolar transistors for use in smart phone chargers, battery packs, notebooks, desktop and servers, data centers, base stations, graphics card, game boxes, TVs, AC adapters, power supplies, motor control, power tools, E-vehicles, white goods and industrial motor drives, UPS systems, solar inverters, and industrial welding.