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.

After the initial pop the shares cooled down and closed the day at $23.36, up 16.5% from previous close.

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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 5.5% since the beginning of the year, and at $23.24 per share, it is trading 13% 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 $2,128.

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