Mobileye Wows With Earnings

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Mobileye Wows With Earnings

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Mobileye N.V. (NYSE: MBLY) released its third-quarter earnings report before the markets opened on Tuesday. The company had $0.15 in earnings per share (EPS) on $70.6 million in revenue, which compares to Thomson Reuters consensus estimates of $0.13 in EPS on $67.36 million in revenue. The same period from the previous year had $0.04 in EPS on $34.68 million in revenue.

Within total revenue, original equipment manufacturing (OEM) revenue was $60.8 million, compared to $28.8 million last year. At the same time, after market revenue contributed the remaining $9.8 million of total revenue for the third quarter of 2015 compared to $5.9 million a year ago.

On the books, Mobileye had cash, equivalents, restricted bank deposits and marketable securities totaling $182.50 million, compared to $375.09 million at the end of December 2014.

Ziv Aviram, co-founder, president and CEO of Mobileye, commented on earnings:

Our third quarter results highlight the growing interest from OEMs, consumers and regulatory agencies to include advanced safety features in vehicles. We launched new programs with autonomous emergency braking, a feature being standardized around the world, and recently released semantic free-space and holistic path prediction, the most innovative vision technologies for road scene interpretation. Our commitment to innovation, ability to add successful program launches and provide best-in-class technologies for autonomous driving further strengthens our leadership in the ADAS and autonomous driving market.

Shares of Mobileye closed Monday at $45.54, with a consensus analyst price target of $73.00 and a 52-week trading range of $32.41 to $64.48. Following the release of the earnings report, shares were initially up about 4% at $47.35 in early trading indications.

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Chris Lange is a writer for 24/7 Wall St., based in Houston. He has covered financial markets over the past decade with an emphasis on healthcare, tech, and IPOs. During this time, he has published thousands of articles with insightful analysis across these complex fields. Currently, Lange's focus is on military and geopolitical topics.

Lange's work has been quoted or mentioned in Forbes, The New York Times, Business Insider, USA Today, MSN, Yahoo, The Verge, Vice, The Intelligencer, Quartz, Nasdaq, The Motley Fool, Fox Business, International Business Times, The Street, Seeking Alpha, Barron’s, Benzinga, and many other major publications.

A graduate of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, Lange majored in business with a particular focus on investments. He has previous experience in the banking industry and startups.

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