Overview
Smart money at a glance
Filings to Oct 2, 2026Net selling: insiders sold $1.1M and bought $0 on the open market in 90 days (SEC Form 4). Congress: no trades disclosed in 180 days.
- Company insidersSEC Form 4, last 90 days
- -$1.1M netNet selling
- CongressSTOCK Act, last 180 days
- NoneNo trades disclosed
- Big fundsSEC 13F, latest quarter
- NoneNo large changes
- Federal contractsUSAspending.gov, last 12 months
- No awardsNone on record
Key stats
Fundamentals Oct 2- Open
- $30.87
- 52-wk high
- $56.00
- High
- $31.68
- 52-wk low
- $20.05
- Low
- $30.67
- Prev close
- $30.78
- Mkt cap
- $1.82B
- P/E
- 10.8x
- Volume
- 1.70M
- Fwd P/E
- 13.3x
- Beta
- 1.35
- P/S
- 2.1x
- P/B
- 1.4x
- Profit margin
- +19.1%
- Op margin
- +21.1%
- ROE
- +13.8%
What do analysts expect?
Analyst target and ratings are on paid plans
See the 12-month consensus target and the buy/hold/sell rating split.
Unlock the full resultsQuestions about PLAB filings
Are insiders buying or selling Photronics Inc (PLAB) stock?
Net selling: insiders sold $1.1M and bought $0 of PLAB stock on the open market in the 90 days to Oct 2, 2026, according to SEC Form 4 filings. The largest was Lee, Kang Jyh (Director), who sold $826K. The latest filing was on Oct 2, 2026.
Which members of Congress have traded PLAB recently?
None. No member of Congress disclosed a PLAB trade with a trade date in the last 180 days, according to House and Senate STOCK Act filings.
How current is this PLAB smart-money data?
This summary uses filings available on Oct 2, 2026. Insiders must report trades to the SEC within 2 business days, members of Congress have up to 45 days to disclose a trade, and funds file 13F holdings up to 45 days after each quarter ends, so the latest moves may not be public yet.
Smart money
8 funds hold a position and insiders have been net selling.
What insiders are doing
How top traders are positioned
No tracked top-trader positions in PLAB right now.
Live Hyperliquid positioning - not every stock is covered
Earnings
Earnings came in 25.0% above what analysts expected.
Earnings per share
$0.40 expected
What the street expects next
Financials
What it sold, what it cost, what was left.
| USD | Oct 2025 | Jan 2026 | Apr 2026 | Jul 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What came in | ||||
| Revenue | $215.8M | $225.1M | $209.9M | $216.0M |
| Cost of what it sold | $140.2M | $146.4M | $144.2M | $144.3M |
| Gross profit | $75.5M | $78.7M | $65.8M | $71.7M |
| What it spent | ||||
| Research and development | $3.2M | $2.6M | $2.8M | $3.7M |
| Sales and admin | $20.0M | $21.3M | $20.8M | $22.5M |
| Total operating expenses | $23.2M | $23.9M | $23.6M | $26.2M |
| What was left | ||||
| Operating profit | $52.3M | $54.8M | $42.2M | $45.5M |
| Interest on debt | $3.0K | $1.0K | $1.0K | $2.0K |
| Profit before tax | $76.0M | $74.5M | $53.9M | $54.9M |
| Tax | -$2.7M | $14.4M | $10.6M | $11.0M |
| Net profit | $61.8M | $42.9M | $31.4M | $28.9M |
| EBITDA | $94.3M | $94.3M | $73.9M | $75.9M |
Technicals
Price structure
This stock is trending upward.
Trend
Constructive
75 / 100
RSI 14
20D volatility
52-week range
20D support
20D resistance
Returns
Price vs moving averages
Volume pace