Stocks · Technology · Hardware, Equipment & Parts
Syntec Optics Holdings, Inc. OPTX
$9.14 +12.70% Close, Oct 2, 2026 · NASDAQ · Market cap $368.2M
Expensive vs sector
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Three things to know
- Over the past year the stock returned +482.2%, ahead of the S&P 500 by 467.1 percentage points.
- The diluted share count rose 6.2% in a year.
- The stock is 35% below its highest close of the past year.
PromtFinance scores
Each score is a percentile within the Technology sector (0–100). Under each score: how the stock ranks in its sector on every component. As of Oct 5, 2026.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are growing.
- Revenue growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 22%
- Revenue growth, 3-year CAGRBottom 31%
- Revenue growth accelerationTop 14%
Returns on capital, margins, earnings quality and balance-sheet strength.
- Return on invested capitalBottom 28%
- Gross marginBottom 12%
- Operating marginBottom 29%
- Accruals (lower is better)Top 42%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Top 6%
- Interest coverBottom 30%
How cheap the shares are relative to earnings, cash flow and their own history.
- Earnings yieldBottom 36%
- Free-cash-flow yieldBottom 26%
- EBITDA / enterprise valueBottom 31%
- Sales / enterprise valueBottom 19%
Strength and persistence of the price trend, including versus the S&P 500.
- 12-month return excluding last monthTop 1%
- 6-month returnBottom 32%
- 1-year return vs S&P 500Top 1%
- Distance from 52-week highBottom 36%
- Trend checklist (0–4)Top 44%
Earnings surprises and analyst sentiment (estimate-revision history is being collected).
Low volatility, shallow drawdowns, low market sensitivity and modest leverage.
- Volatility, 60 days (lower is better)Bottom 9%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 yearsBottom 4%
- Beta vs S&P 500 (lower is better)Top 4%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Top 6%
What changed
Latest four quarters versus the same period a year earlier (growth: versus one quarter earlier).
| Measure | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (YoY) | -5.9% | 1.5% | ↑ |
| Gross margin | 23.3% | 19.6% | ↓ |
| Operating margin | -3.3% | -4.6% | ↓ |
| FCF margin | -1.4% | -6.8% | ↓ |
Fundamental momentum
| Measure | Now (TTM) | Year / quarter before | Sector rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (TTM, YoY) | 1.5% | -5.9% | ↑ | Bottom 22% |
| Gross margin | 19.6% | 23.3% | ↓ | Bottom 12% |
| Operating margin | -4.6% | -3.3% | ↓ | Bottom 29% |
| Net margin | -8.3% | -5.5% | ↓ | — |
| Free-cash-flow margin | -6.8% | -1.4% | ↓ | — |
| Return on invested capital | -3.9% | — | Bottom 28% | |
| Revenue growth, 3-year CAGR | 0.3% | — | Bottom 31% |
Quality of earnings and balance sheet
- Accruals (net income − OCF) / assetsLower is better; high accruals can signal weaker earnings quality.
- -8.7%
- Stock-based compensation / revenueA cost to shareholders through dilution.
- 1.8%
- Receivables growth vs revenue growthReceivables growing much faster than sales can be a warning.
- +18.8 pp
- Net debt / EBITDABelow 1× is conservative; above 3× is high leverage.
- -9.39×
- Interest cover (operating income / interest)How many times operating profit covers interest.
- -1.9×
Shareholder returns
- Dividend yield (dividends paid, TTM)
- 0.00%
- Net buyback yield (TTM)
- -6.25%
- Shareholder yield
- -6.25%
- Share count change, 1 year
- +6.2%
- Share count change, 3-year CAGR
- +7.4%
Shareholder yield = dividends + net buybacks over the last four quarters, divided by market cap.
Based on the four quarters through Jun 30, 2026 (filed Aug 10, 2026).
Earnings and expectations
Earnings momentum
- Average 2-day reaction, last 8
- -1.2%
- Positive 20 days after report
- 3 of 8
How the stock reacted to recent reports
| Report date | EPS surprise | 2 days | 5 days | 20 days | 60 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2026 | — | -2.7% | +13.1% | -2.8% | — |
| May 15, 2026 | — | -6.3% | +43.2% | +73.4% | +16.1% |
| Mar 31, 2026 | — | +7.2% | +33.2% | +25.0% | +49.4% |
| Nov 13, 2025 | — | -6.0% | -36.3% | -28.4% | +240.9% |
| Oct 3, 2025 | — | -1.3% | +31.8% | +63.1% | +72.0% |
| Jun 4, 2025 | — | +1.3% | +2.6% | -10.3% | +4.5% |
| Mar 13, 2025 | — | +0.8% | +17.2% | -10.2% | +14.1% |
| Nov 14, 2024 | — | -2.6% | -42.3% | -34.2% | +12.3% |
Returns from the close before each report. Past reactions do not determine future ones.
Earnings history
| Report date | EPS | Estimate | Surprise | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2026 | $0.01 | — | — | $8.3M |
| May 15, 2026 | -$0.02 | — | — | $6.5M |
| Mar 31, 2026 | -$0.01 | — | — | $7.5M |
| Nov 13, 2025 | -$0.04 | — | — | $7.0M |
| Oct 3, 2025 | -$0.04 | — | — | $6.6M |
| Jun 4, 2025 | $0.01 | — | — | $7.1M |
| Mar 13, 2025 | -$0.04 | — | — | $7.3M |
| Nov 14, 2024 | -$0.00 | — | — | $7.9M |
Valuation in context
| Multiple | Now | 5-year median | 5-year percentile | Sector rank (cheapness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EV / EBITDA | 346.6× | — | — | Bottom 31% |
| EV / Sales | 12.26× | — | — | Bottom 19% |
| Free-cash-flow yield | -0.54% | — | — | Bottom 26% |
| Earnings yield | -0.69% | — | — | Bottom 36% |
P/E over the past five years
Range 73.6× – 484.0× since Sep 30, 2023. Each point: price on the filing date divided by trailing-twelve-month EPS known then.
Technical state
Trend checklist
- ✓ Price above 20-day average
- ✓ Price above 50-day average
- ✓ Price above 200-day average
- ✗ 50-day average above 200-day
- ✓ MACD histogram positive
Trend quality
- Days above the 50-day average
- 3
- Days above the 200-day average
- 3
- 50-day average slope (20 days)
- -8.6%
- 200-day average slope (20 days)
- +8.3%
- Distance from 50-day average
- +19.2%
- Distance from 200-day average
- +18.4%
- RSI (14)
- 63.6
- Relative volume
- 1.96×
Risk and drawdowns
- Volatility, 60 days (annualized)
- 101.9%
- Volatility vs own 5-year history
- 40th percentile · Normal for this stock
- Beta vs S&P 500 (2 years, weekly)
- 0.50
- Correlation with S&P 500
- 0.03
- Current drawdown from 1-year high
- -35.2%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 years
- -93.0%
Largest declines in the past six years
| From peak | To low | Decline | Length | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2023 | Nov 26, 2024 | -93.0% | 271 days | 377 days (Jun 2, 2026) |
| Jun 11, 2026 | Jul 29, 2026 | -58.3% | 32 days | Not yet recovered |
| Jun 2, 2026 | Jun 5, 2026 | -14.2% | 3 days | 4 days (Jun 11, 2026) |
Declines of 10% or more from a closing high, measured on daily closes.
Financial statements
- Market cap
- $368.2M
- EPS, diluted (TTM)
- -$0.06
- Revenue (TTM)
- $29.2M
- 52-week range
- $1.18 – $14.92
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $26.6M | $27.8M | $29.4M | $28.4M | $28.1M |
| Gross profit | $6.6M | $6.1M | $7.9M | $5.7M | $6.5M |
| Operating income | $1.4M | -$528,234 | $1.5M | -$2.6M | -$517,600 |
| Net income | $3.3M | -$434,569 | $2.0M | -$2.5M | -$1.8M |
| EPS (diluted) | $0.17 | -$0.01 | $0.06 | -$0.07 | -$0.05 |
| Q3 2024 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $7.9M | $7.3M | $7.1M | $6.6M | $7.0M | $7.5M | $6.5M | $8.3M |
| Net income | -$13,289 | -$1.5M | $323,665 | -$343,921 | -$1.4M | -$343,838 | -$897,857 | $256,237 |
| EPS (diluted) | -$0.00 | -$0.04 | $0.01 | -$0.01 | -$0.04 | -$0.01 | -$0.02 | $0.01 |
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | -$274,017 | $1.9M | $2.8M | -$942,830 | $672,635 |
| Capital expenditure | -$3 | -$1.2M | -$1.9M | -$1.2M | -$644,292 |
| Free cash flow | -$274,020 | $687,080 | $871,040 | -$2.2M | $28,343 |
| Dividends paid | $0 | -$280,770 | -$62,065 | $0 | $0 |
| Net share buybacks | $147.4M | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Cash outflows are shown as negative numbers.
- Cash and short-term investments
- $14.0M
- Total assets
- $38.1M
- Total liabilities
- $7.5M
- Total debt
- $4.3M
- Net debt
- -$9.7M
- Shareholders’ equity
- $30.5M
As of Jun 30, 2026 (filed Aug 10, 2026).
Short interest
- Shares sold short
- 1,728,423
- Days to cover
- 7.91
- Change vs previous report
- -12.6%
FINRA short interest, settlement date Sep 15, 2026.