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.
Another thing that can drive investing is the fear of missing out, or FOMO. This particularly applies to tech giants and 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?
Keysight's Business In-Depth
With that in mind, let's take a look at Keysight's main business drivers.
Based in Santa Rosa, CA, Keysight Technologies, Inc. is a provider of electronic design and test instrumentation systems. In 2013, Agilent Technologies 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 second-quarter fiscal 2026, the company generated revenues of $1.72 billion.
Under CSG segment (72% of revenues in the second-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 (28% of revenues in the second-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.
Bottom Line
Putting together a successful investment portfolio takes a combination of research, patience, and a little bit of risk. For Keysight, if you bought shares a decade ago, you're likely feeling really good about your investment today.
According to our calculations, a $1000 investment made in August 2016 would be worth $11,977.54, or a gain of 1,097.75%, as of August 5, 2026, and this return excludes dividends but includes price increases.
The S&P 500 rose 257.47% and the price of gold increased 188.10% over the same time frame in comparison.
Analysts are forecasting more upside for KEYS too.
Keysight is benefiting from accelerating AI infrastructure investments that are driving demand for advanced test, measurement and validation solutions across data centers, networking and semiconductor markets. The company continues to gain from increasing test complexity associated with next-generation technologies, including high-speed networking, AI clusters and advanced chip architectures. Record orders and a stronger fiscal outlook provide greater earnings visibility, reflecting healthy demand and supporting sustained business momentum across key end markets. An expanding software and services mix, recurring revenue streams and leadership in 5G, 6G and network technologies further strengthen its competitive position. However, tariffs, export controls, currency fluctuations and supply chain disruptions remain key challenges.
The stock has jumped 10.39% 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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