What Happened?

Shares of PCB manufacturing company TTM Technologies (NASDAQ:TTMI) jumped 20.2% in the pre-market session after the company reported strong first quarter 2025 results which significantly exceeded analysts' EPS expectations and included next quarter's EPS guidance that outperformed Wall Street's estimates by a wide margin. Sales climbed 14% year on year, boosted by strong demand across aerospace and defense, data center computing, and networking. Zooming out, we think this was a good quarter with some key areas of upside.

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What The Market Is Telling Us

TTM Technologies’s shares are quite volatile and have had 15 moves greater than 5% over the last year. But moves this big are rare even for TTM Technologies and indicate this news significantly impacted the market’s perception of the business.

TTM Technologies is down 6% since the beginning of the year, and at $23.11 per share, it is trading 13.5% below its 52-week high of $26.72 from February 2025. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of TTM Technologies’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at an investment worth $2,116.

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