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Richardson Electronics, Ltd. RELL
$18.99 +2.32% Close, Oct 2, 2026 · NASDAQ · Market cap $277.7M
Strong trendLow risk
Next earnings report: Oct 7, 2026
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Three things to know
- Over the past year the stock returned +97.6%, ahead of the S&P 500 by 82.5 percentage points.
- The stock is in an uptrend: above its 200-day average for 213 trading days, with the 50-day average above the 200-day.
- Revenue over the last four quarters was $228.6M, up 9.4% from a year earlier, accelerating from 4.8% a quarter earlier.
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 42%
- FCF growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 2%
- Revenue growth, 3-year CAGRBottom 17%
- Revenue growth accelerationTop 22%
Returns on capital, margins, earnings quality and balance-sheet strength.
- Return on invested capitalBottom 48%
- Gross marginBottom 22%
- Operating marginBottom 43%
- Cash conversion (OCF / net income)Bottom 3%
- Accruals (lower is better)Bottom 6%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Top 14%
How cheap the shares are relative to earnings, cash flow and their own history.
- Earnings yieldTop 35%
- Free-cash-flow yieldBottom 17%
- EBITDA / enterprise valueTop 39%
- Sales / enterprise valueTop 15%
- P/E vs own 5-year history (lower is better)Bottom 49%
Strength and persistence of the price trend, including versus the S&P 500.
- 12-month return excluding last monthTop 13%
- 6-month returnTop 19%
- 1-year return vs S&P 500Top 14%
- Distance from 52-week highTop 31%
- Trend checklist (0–4)Top 18%
Earnings surprises and analyst sentiment (estimate-revision history is being collected).
- Average EPS surprise, last 4 quartersTop 4%
- Consecutive EPS beatsBottom 44%
- Upside to consensus price targetTop 50%
Low volatility, shallow drawdowns, low market sensitivity and modest leverage.
- Volatility, 60 days (lower is better)Bottom 27%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 yearsTop 19%
- Beta vs S&P 500 (lower is better)Top 22%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Top 14%
What changed
Latest four quarters versus the same period a year earlier (growth: versus one quarter earlier).
| Measure | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 4.8% | 9.4% | ↑ |
| Gross margin | 31.0% | 31.2% | ↑ |
| Operating margin | 1.2% | 2.8% | ↑ |
| FCF margin | 3.7% | -4.2% | ↓ |
Fundamental momentum
| Measure | Now (TTM) | Year / quarter before | Sector rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (TTM, YoY) | 9.4% | 4.8% | ↑ | Bottom 42% |
| Gross margin | 31.2% | 31.0% | ↑ | Bottom 22% |
| Operating margin | 2.8% | 1.2% | ↑ | Bottom 43% |
| Net margin | 2.8% | -0.5% | ↑ | — |
| Free-cash-flow margin | -4.2% | 3.7% | ↓ | — |
| Return on invested capital | 3.3% | — | Bottom 48% | |
| Revenue growth, 3-year CAGR | -4.5% | — | Bottom 17% |
Quality of earnings and balance sheet
- Cash conversion (OCF / net income)Above 1× means profits are backed by cash.
- -0.81×
- Accruals (net income − OCF) / assetsLower is better; high accruals can signal weaker earnings quality.
- 5.7%
- Stock-based compensation / revenueA cost to shareholders through dilution.
- 0.7%
- Receivables growth vs revenue growthReceivables growing much faster than sales can be a warning.
- +28.1 pp
- Net debt / EBITDABelow 1× is conservative; above 3× is high leverage.
- -2.83×
Shareholder returns
- Dividend yield (dividends paid, TTM)
- 0.65%
- Net buyback yield (TTM)
- -0.36%
- Shareholder yield
- 0.30%
- Share count change, 1 year
- +1.4%
- Share count change, 3-year CAGR
- -4.2%
Shareholder yield = dividends + net buybacks over the last four quarters, divided by market cap.
Based on the four quarters through May 30, 2026 (filed Aug 3, 2026).
Earnings and expectations
Earnings momentum
- Consecutive EPS beats
- 2
- Beats in the last 8 reports
- 6 of 8
- Average EPS surprise, last 4
- +100.0%
- Average 2-day reaction, last 8
- +3.7%
- Positive 20 days after report
- 5 of 8
Analysts
- Consensus price target
- $24.00
- Target vs current price
- +26.4%
How the stock reacted to recent reports
| Report date | EPS surprise | 2 days | 5 days | 20 days | 60 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2026 | +223.1% | +4.8% | +9.2% | +10.7% | — |
| Apr 8, 2026 | +40.0% | +4.9% | +21.0% | +31.0% | +48.2% |
| Jan 7, 2026 | +0.0% | +1.2% | -8.8% | +1.5% | -3.5% |
| Oct 8, 2025 | +550.0% | +7.8% | +18.9% | +8.0% | +9.3% |
| Jul 23, 2025 | +140.0% | +1.5% | +8.3% | -0.6% | +21.4% |
| Apr 9, 2025 | +37.5% | +7.1% | -10.5% | -3.8% | +6.2% |
| Jan 7, 2025 | -150.0% | -0.9% | -13.7% | -11.6% | -31.8% |
| Oct 9, 2024 | +499.7% | +3.4% | +3.8% | +12.6% | +14.7% |
Returns from the close before each report. Past reactions do not determine future ones.
Earnings history
| Report date | EPS | Estimate | Surprise | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2026 | $0.21 | $0.07 | +223.1% | $66.2M |
| Apr 8, 2026 | $0.07 | $0.05 | +40.0% | $55.5M |
| Jan 7, 2026 | -$0.01 | -$0.01 | +0.0% | $52.3M |
| Oct 8, 2025 | $0.13 | $0.02 | +550.0% | $54.6M |
| Jul 23, 2025 | $0.12 | $0.05 | +140.0% | $51.9M |
| Apr 9, 2025 | $0.11 | $0.08 | +37.5% | $53.8M |
| Jan 7, 2025 | -$0.05 | -$0.02 | -150.0% | $49.5M |
| Oct 9, 2024 | $0.04 | $0.01 | +499.7% | $53.7M |
Valuation in context
| Multiple | Now | 5-year median | 5-year percentile | Sector rank (cheapness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E (trailing) | 44.0× | 22.1× | 59th | Top 35% |
| P/E (forward) | 37.6× | — | — | — |
| EV / EBITDA | 23.1× | — | — | Top 39% |
| EV / Sales | 1.08× | — | — | Top 15% |
| Free-cash-flow yield | -3.43% | — | — | Bottom 17% |
| Earnings yield | 2.27% | — | — | Top 35% |
P/E over the past five years
Range 9.0× – 355.7× since May 31, 2021. 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
- 2
- Days above the 200-day average
- 213
- 50-day average slope (20 days)
- -0.8%
- 200-day average slope (20 days)
- +4.7%
- Distance from 50-day average
- +5.0%
- Distance from 200-day average
- +27.3%
- RSI (14)
- 63.0
- Relative volume
- 1.57×
Risk and drawdowns
- Volatility, 60 days (annualized)
- 79.2%
- Volatility vs own 5-year history
- 96th percentile · High for this stock
- Beta vs S&P 500 (2 years, weekly)
- 1.00
- Correlation with S&P 500
- 0.33
- Current drawdown from 1-year high
- -13.0%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 years
- -45.4%
Largest declines in the past six years
| From peak | To low | Decline | Length | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 2022 | Apr 10, 2025 | -69.4% | 594 days | Not yet recovered |
| Jan 11, 2022 | Mar 7, 2022 | -27.7% | 37 days | 76 days (Jun 24, 2022) |
| Aug 15, 2022 | Sep 23, 2022 | -21.5% | 28 days | 9 days (Oct 6, 2022) |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Jul 15, 2021 | -16.9% | 31 days | 35 days (Sep 2, 2021) |
| Nov 16, 2021 | Dec 1, 2021 | -15.8% | 10 days | 20 days (Dec 30, 2021) |
Declines of 10% or more from a closing high, measured on daily closes.
Financial statements
- Market cap
- $277.7M
- P/E (TTM)
- 44.0
- EPS, diluted (TTM)
- $0.43
- Revenue (TTM)
- $228.6M
- Dividend yield
- 1.26%
- 52-week range
- $9.37 – $23.15
| FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | FY 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $224.6M | $262.7M | $196.5M | $208.9M | $228.6M |
| Gross profit | $71.7M | $83.7M | $55.7M | $64.8M | $71.3M |
| Operating income | $16.0M | $25.0M | $418,000 | -$2.5M | $6.5M |
| Net income | $17.9M | $22.3M | $61,000 | -$1.1M | $6.4M |
| EPS (diluted) | $1.31 | $1.32 | $0.00 | -$0.09 | $0.44 |
| Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | Q3 2026 | Q4 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $53.7M | $49.5M | $53.8M | $51.9M | $54.6M | $52.3M | $55.5M | $66.2M |
| Net income | $590,000 | -$751,000 | -$2.1M | $1.1M | $1.9M | -$121,000 | $893,000 | $3.7M |
| EPS (diluted) | $0.04 | -$0.05 | -$0.15 | $0.09 | $0.13 | -$0.01 | $0.06 | $0.25 |
| FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | FY 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $1.9M | -$8.2M | $6.5M | $10.6M | $762,000 |
| Capital expenditure | -$3.1M | -$7.4M | -$4.0M | -$2.8M | -$4.4M |
| Free cash flow | -$1.2M | -$15.6M | $2.5M | $7.7M | -$3.6M |
| Dividends paid | -$3.2M | -$3.3M | -$3.4M | -$3.4M | -$3.4M |
| Net share buybacks | $3.0M | $3.8M | $591,000 | $320,000 | $993,000 |
Cash outflows are shown as negative numbers.
- Cash and short-term investments
- $31.8M
- Total assets
- $202.0M
- Total liabilities
- $38.3M
- Total debt
- $1.4M
- Net debt
- -$30.4M
- Shareholders’ equity
- $163.7M
As of May 30, 2026 (filed Aug 3, 2026).
Dividends
| Ex-date | Amount | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2026 | $0.06 | Aug 26, 2026 |
| May 8, 2026 | $0.06 | May 27, 2026 |
| Feb 6, 2026 | $0.06 | Feb 25, 2026 |
| Nov 7, 2025 | $0.06 | Nov 26, 2025 |
| Aug 8, 2025 | $0.06 | Aug 27, 2025 |
| May 9, 2025 | $0.06 | May 28, 2025 |
| Feb 7, 2025 | $0.06 | Feb 26, 2025 |
| Nov 8, 2024 | $0.06 | Nov 27, 2024 |
Short interest
- Shares sold short
- 925,687
- Days to cover
- 8.99
- Change vs previous report
- +6.6%
FINRA short interest, settlement date Sep 15, 2026.
Stock splits
- Oct 26, 1987
- 11-for-10
- May 6, 1986
- 3-for-2
- Jun 3, 1985
- 3-for-2