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What: Shares of Universal Display
So what: Universal Display is getting going in a big way, as this latest quarter was the best in company history, according to CFO Sidney Rosenblatt. The year-ago quarter's bottom-line result was a $0.03 loss per share, so this is certainly a big improvement. Material sales of OLED technology nearly doubled, and licensing revenue (much from a major deal with Samsung) grew substantially as well.
Now what: Universal Display isn't sitting still, and it recently added significant patent depth through an acquisition of Fujifilm's 1,200 OLED patents. The exploding smartphone market offers significant upside for Universal Display and its high-end OLED technology. This latest bounce reversed a slide that began nearly a year ago, but now that earnings are starting to fill out, Universal Display could become more attractively valued by year end.
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