How much a stock's price changes over time is important for most investors, since price performance can both impact your investment portfolio and help you compare investment results across sectors and industries.
Why investing for the long run, especially if you buy certain popular stocks, could reap huge rewards.
How much a stock's price changes over time is important for most investors, since price performance can both impact your investment portfolio and help you compare investment results across sectors and industries.
The fear of missing out, or FOMO, also plays a factor in investing, especially with particular tech giants, as well as popular consumer-facing stocks.
What if you'd invested in Keysight (KEYS) ten years ago? It may not have been easy to hold on to KEYS for all that time, but if you did, how much would your investment be worth today?
With that in mind, let's take a look at Keysight's main business drivers.
Based in Santa Rosa, CA, Keysight Technologies $KEYS, Inc. is a provider of electronic design and test instrumentation systems. In 2013, Agilent Technologies $A announced that it will split into two independent companies. One of the companies was named Keysight Technologies, which became a fully independent electronic measurement company on Nov 1, 2014 and got listed on the New York Stock Exchange on Nov 3, 2014, with ticker symbol KEYS.
Keysight’s suite of connected car test solutions include Virtual Drive Test Toolset, which facilitates automakers to build virtual test routes in the lab by integrating network and channel emulation capabilities, and combining data captured in the field. Moreover, the company is evolving its expertise in software test automation capabilities.
Meanwhile, KeysightCare aids customers with end-to-end scalable support model solution loaded with robust test and measurement know-how to reduce time-to-market and enhance efficiency in a cost-effective manner.
Beginning first-quarter fiscal 2020, the company’s financial reporting comprises two segments — Electronic Industrial Solutions Group (EISG) and Communications Solutions Group (CSG). In the first-quarter fiscal 2026, the company generated revenues of $1.6 billion.
Under CSG segment (70.25% of revenues in the first-quarter fiscal 2026), the company offers radio frequency (RF) and microwave test instruments and allied software, and electronic design automation (EDA) software instruments, laser source products, optical amplifiers, and other software solutions.
The EISG segment (29.75% of revenues in the first-quarter fiscal 2026) offers test and measurement solutions across an array of electronic industrial end markets. It focuses on high-value applications in the automotive and energy industries and measurement solutions for consumer electronics, education, general electronics design and manufacturing, and semiconductor design and manufacturing. It also provides software and systems along with related services for use in the simulation, design, validation, manufacturing, installation and optimization of electronic equipment.
Anyone can invest, but building a successful investment portfolio takes a combination of a few things: research, patience, and a little bit of risk. So, if you had invested in Keysight a decade ago, you're probably feeling pretty good about your investment today.
According to our calculations, a $1000 investment made in May 2016 would be worth $13,666.67, or a gain of 1,266.67%, as of May 8, 2026, and this return excludes dividends but includes price increases.
The S&P 500 rose 256.67% and the price of gold increased 250.45% over the same time frame in comparison.
Analysts are forecasting more upside for KEYS too.
Keysight is benefiting from the growing proliferation of electronic content in vehicles, momentum in space and satellite applications, and the rising adoption of driver-assistance systems globally. The company's robust 5G product portfolio, ranging from Layer 1 to 7, enables telecom and semiconductor companies to accelerate their 5G initiatives. Management's focus on other emerging markets like the IoT and high-speed data centers bodes well for the top line. High demand for parametric wafer test solutions is supporting net sales in the ElSG segment. Strong focus on innovation is a positive. However, high dependency on contract manufacturing has made KEYS vulnerable to supply chain disruptions. The imposition of tariffs owing to the trade war between the United States and China is negatively impacting growth prospects.
The stock has jumped 9.95% over the past four weeks. Additionally, no earnings estimate has gone lower in the past two months, compared to 1 higher, for fiscal 2026; the consensus estimate has moved up as well.
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This company targets millennial and Gen Z audiences, generating nearly $1 billion in revenue last quarter alone. A recent pullback makes now an ideal time to jump aboard. Of course, all our elite picks aren’t winners but this one could far surpass earlier Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Nano-X $TWTR Imaging which shot up +129.6% in little more than 9 months.
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