Shares of Keysight Technologies Inc. rose more than 6% in the extended session Monday after the maker of electronics test and measurement equipment and software reported fiscal first-quarter profit and sales above Wall Street expectations. Keysight said it earned $163 million, or 86 cents a share, compared with $114 million, or 60 cents a share, in the first quarter of 2019. Adjusted for one-time items, Keysight earned $240 million, or $1.26 a share, compared with $176 million, or 93 cents a share, in the first quarter of 2019. Sales rose 9% to $1.1 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected adjusted EPS of $1.08 on sales of $1.06 billion. The company guided for fiscal second-quarter sales between $1.138 billion and $1.178 billion, and adjusted EPS between $1.28 a share and $1.38 a share. The stock had ended the regular trading day down 5.5%.
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