Big Money Sentiment decreased to 1.37 in 2018 Q4. It has change of 0.12, from 2018Q3’s 1.49. The ratio dived due to Nanometrics Incorporated positioning: 30 sold and 40 reduced. 30 funds acquired positions and 66 increased positions. Investors holded 19.34 million in 2018Q3 but now own 20.50 million shares or 6.00% more.

Prelude Mngmt Limited Co, New York-based fund reported 7,893 shs. Hussman Strategic accumulated 100,000 shs or 0.66% of the stock. Us Fincl Bank De has invested 0% in Nanometrics Incorporated (NASDAQ:NANO). 320,340 were reported by Northern Tru Corp. Parametric Assoc Ltd Limited Liability Company holds 43,176 shs. Meeder Asset Management Inc stated it has 0.01% in Nanometrics Incorporated (NASDAQ:NANO). 12,512 were reported by Public Employees Retirement Systems Of Ohio. Alliancebernstein L P reported 22,050 shs. Swiss Comml Bank reported 39,900 shs or 0% of all its holdings. Wells Fargo Mn invested in 66,366 shs. 7,556 are held by Origin Asset Llp. Highstreet Asset owns 0% invested in Nanometrics Incorporated (NASDAQ:NANO) for 82 shs. Seizert Prtnrs Ltd Liability Corp has invested 0.01% in Nanometrics Incorporated (NASDAQ:NANO). Virginia Retirement Systems Et Al, a Virginia-based fund reported 11,600 shs. Goldman Sachs Gru, New York-based fund reported 133,637 shs.

Nanometrics Incorporated registered $315,748 net activity with 0 insider buys and 4 insider sales since November 23, 2018. Kocher Rollin sold $4,906 worth of Nanometrics Incorporated (NASDAQ:NANO) or 183 shs on Thursday, January 3. On Tuesday, November 27 a trade for 6,856 shs valued at $214,661 was made by Lesaicherre Pierre-Yves.

What Price Target Has Needham Given Nanometrics (NASDAQ:NANO)

Needham’s Expert analysts have $37 target price which indicates upside potential of 13.99 % on Nanometrics (NASDAQ:NANO). Needham also started coverage of NANO stock on Wednesday morning.

NANO is reaching $32.46 during the last trading session, after increased 1.60%.Nanometrics Incorporated has volume of 161,390 shares. Since April 18, 2018 NANO has risen 16.61% and is uptrending. NANO outperformed the S&P500 by 12.24%.

Investors expect Nanometrics Incorporated (NASDAQ:NANO)’s quarterly earnings on May, 7., according to RTT. This year’s earnings per share analyst estimate is awaited to be $0.21. That is 68.66 % down compareed to $0.67 earnings per share for last year. If reported the P/E will be 38.64 with $5.15 million profit. Analysts at Wall Street see Nanometrics Incorporated’s -60.38 % negative EPS growth compared to $0.53 earnings per share for last quarter.

Nanometrics Incorporated provides process control metrology and inspection systems for use primarily in the fabrication of semiconductors and other solid-state devices worldwide.The company has $796.39 million market cap. It offers automated metrology systems that provide optical critical dimension, thin film metrology, and wafer stress for transistor and interconnect metrology applications; and integrated metrology systems that are installed onto wafer processing equipment to provide near real-time measurements.13.87 is the P/E ratio. The company's materials characterization products include systems that are used to monitor the physical, optical, electrical, and material characteristics of discrete electronic industry, opto-electronic, high brightness LED, solar photovoltaic, compound semiconductor, strained silicon, and silicon-on-insulator devices, including composition, crystal structure, layer thickness, dopant concentration, contamination, and electron mobility.

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