Investing.com -- Shares of Nordic Semiconductor (OSLO:OL:NOD) climbed 3.4% today following the company’s better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings report.
The semiconductor company reported a Q4 revenue of $150.2 million, which is a 38.8% increase year-on-year (YoY) and 5.4% lower compared to the previous quarter. These figures surpassed the Visible Alpha consensus of $139 million by 8%, largely driven by growth in both short and long-range products and robust demand from consumer electronics customers in the US and Asia.
For the first quarter, Nordic Semiconductor has guided revenues to be between $140 million and $160 million, with the mid-point at $150 million, almost flat compared to Q4 but representing a substantial 101.3% increase YoY.
This guidance is significantly above the consensus estimate of $116 million, suggesting that orders from individual customers are expected to counter the usual first-quarter negative seasonality. The company also aims to maintain a gross margin above 50%, in line with the consensus estimate of 50.1%.
In response to the earnings release, analysts at Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) (BofA) have expressed a positive outlook. "We raise our FY25-26E revenue ests by 0.4-10%, which leaves us with EPS upgrades for FY25-26E. We raise our PO to NOK 154 from NOK 132 on 19x FY26E EV/EBITDA (raised from 17x prior due to end-market recovery, but within historical range of 11x to 31x ex-COVID and slightly above its 18.5x historical median)," stated BofA.
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