Entegris Inc (ENTG) shares rose 5.36% and reached a 52-week high amid positive market conditions, with the Nasdaq-100 up 0.90% and the S&P 500 up 0.43%.
The company confirmed its fourth-quarter 2025 sales guidance of $790 million to $830 million, slightly below market expectations, while reaffirming adjusted earnings per share projections between 62 cents and 69 cents. This comes as CFO Linda LaGorga is set to step down on February 28, 2026, with Mike Sauer appointed as Interim CFO, ensuring continuity in financial leadership during this transition.
Despite the executive change, Entegris's outlook remains stable, reflecting confidence in its financial performance and the potential for growth in the semiconductor sector as market demand rebounds.
Wall Street analysts forecast ENTG stock price to fall over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for ENTG is 98.29 USD with a low forecast of 75.00 USD and a high forecast of 115.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
7 Analyst Rating
Wall Street analysts forecast ENTG stock price to fall over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for ENTG is 98.29 USD with a low forecast of 75.00 USD and a high forecast of 115.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
5 Buy
1 Hold
1 Sell
Moderate Buy
Current: 120.650
Low
75.00
Averages
98.29
High
115.00
Current: 120.650
Low
75.00
Averages
98.29
High
115.00
Citi
Buy
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$100 -> $145
2026-01-26
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Reason
Citi
Price Target
$100 -> $145
AI Analysis
2026-01-26
New
upgrade
Buy
Reason
Citi raised the firm's price target on Entegris to $145 from $100 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares ahead of the December quarter report on February 10. The firm cites confidence in an end market recovery for Entegris for the target bump. The company should see gross margin improvement along with multiple expansion given its artificial intelligence exposure, the analyst tells investors in a research note.
Seaport Research
Michael Harrison
Buy
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Neutral
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2026-01-23
Reason
Seaport Research
Michael Harrison
Price Target
2026-01-23
downgrade
Buy
to
Neutral
Reason
Seaport Research analyst Michael Harrison downgraded Entegris to Neutral from Buy.
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BMO Capital
Outperform
maintain
$105 -> $126
2026-01-21
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BMO Capital
Price Target
$105 -> $126
2026-01-21
maintain
Outperform
Reason
BMO Capital raised the firm's price target on Entegris to $126 from $105 and keeps an Outperform rating on the shares. The company continued its leadership transition, announcing a mutual agreement with current CFO Linda LaGorga to step down from the role, also reiterating its guidance, the analyst tells investors in a research note. BMO adds that its higher price target reflects the improving sector fundamentals as well as higher sector valuation.
Needham
Charles Shi
Strong Buy
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$100 -> $150
2026-01-20
Reason
Needham
Charles Shi
Price Target
$100 -> $150
2026-01-20
upgrade
Strong Buy
Reason
Needham analyst Charles Shi raised the firm's price target on Entegris to $150 from $100 and keeps a Strong Buy rating on the shares. Commentary from the Needham Growth Conference pointed to broad-based demand improvement over the past 90 days, supporting a bullish sector outlook, the analyst tells investors in a research note. Despite strong year-to-date performance, the direction for semicap remains positive, with Q4 earnings expected to deliver multiple catalysts, the firm says.
About ENTG
Entegris, Inc. is a supplier of critical advanced materials and process solutions for semiconductors and other high-technology industries. Its segments include Materials Solutions (MS) and Advanced Purity Solutions (APS). The MS segment provides materials-based solutions, such as chemical vapor and atomic layer deposition materials, chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) slurries and pads, ion implantation specialty gases, formulated etch and clean materials, and other specialty materials. The APS segment offers filtration, purification and contamination-control solutions that improve customers’ yield and device reliability by ensuring the purity of critical liquid chemistries and gases and the cleanliness of wafers and other substrates used throughout semiconductor manufacturing processes, the semiconductor ecosystem and other high-technology industries. It has manufacturing, customer service and/or research facilities in the United States, Canada, China, Germany and others.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.