Why Leggett & Platt Shares Are Trading Higher By Around 15%; Here Are 20 Stocks Moving Premarket
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: Apr 29 2025
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Source: Benzinga
Leggett & Platt Earnings Report: Leggett & Platt's shares surged 14.8% in pre-market trading after the company reported a first-quarter EPS of 24 cents, exceeding expectations, and raised its FY25 EPS guidance.
Market Movements: Several stocks experienced significant changes in pre-market trading, with notable gainers including Wearable Devices Ltd. (+55%) and LogicMark, Inc. (+46.5%), while Incannex Healthcare Inc. saw a sharp decline of 65.8%.
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Analyst Views on UCTT
Wall Street analysts forecast UCTT stock price to fall over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for UCTT is 35.00 USD with a low forecast of 35.00 USD and a high forecast of 35.00 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.
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Current: 45.330
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Current: 45.330
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About UCTT
Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. is a developer and supplier of critical subsystems, components, parts, and ultra-high purity cleaning and analytical services, primarily for the semiconductor industry. It offers its customers an integrated outsourced solution for major subassemblies, design-to-delivery cycle times, design for manufacturability, and prototyping. The Company’s segments are Products and Services. The Products segment primarily designs, engineers, and manufactures production tools, components, parts, and modules and subsystems. The Products segment includes chemical delivery modules, frame assemblies, gas delivery systems, fluid delivery systems, precision robotics and process modules as well as other high-level assemblies. The Services segment provides ultra-high purity parts cleaning, process tool part recoating, surface encapsulation and high sensitivity micro contamination analysis primarily for the semiconductor device makers and wafer fabrication equipment (WFE) markets.
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.
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