Why Are People Selling Their MPWR Shares?

Monolithic Power Systems stock is trading -26.21% below its average target price of $550.8 after dropping -11.4% during today's afternoon session. Analysts are giving the large-cap Semiconductors company an average rating of buy and target prices ranging from $505.0 to $620.0 per share.

The stock has an average amount of shares sold short at 6.7%, and a short ratio of 5.1. The company's insiders own 2.81% of its outstanding shares, which indicates a strong alignment between management and shareholder interests. Finally, we also note that a significant number of institutional investors are invested in the stock, with 101.4% of Monolithic Power Systems's shares being owned by this investor type.

Institutions Invested in Monolithic Power Systems

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2022-12-31 Blackrock Inc. 12% 5,455,200 $2,217,047,851
2022-12-31 Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) 11% 5,118,311 $2,080,132,792
2022-12-31 Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc 8% 3,651,445 $1,483,983,775
2022-12-31 State Street Corporation 4% 1,758,612 $714,717,509
2022-12-31 Franklin Resources, Inc. 4% 1,675,208 $680,821,289
2022-12-31 Invesco Ltd. 3% 1,486,193 $604,003,702
2022-12-31 FMR, LLC 3% 1,463,823 $594,912,310
2022-12-31 Massachusetts Financial Services Co. 2% 1,119,953 $455,160,102
2022-12-31 Brown Advisory Inc. 2% 1,059,694 $430,670,242
2022-12-31 Geode Capital Management, LLC 2% 953,081 $387,341,652

Besides an analyst consensus of strong upside potential, other market factors point to there being positive market sentiment on Monolithic Power Systems.

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