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Silicon Laboratories Inc. SLAB
$222.76 +0.11% Close, Oct 2, 2026 · NASDAQ · Market cap $7.35B
Strong trendLow risk
Next earnings report: Nov 3, 2026
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Three things to know
- Operating margin widened to -3.8% from -16.1% a year earlier.
- Earnings beat analyst estimates in each of the last 6 quarters (average surprise over the last four: +5.4%).
- The stock is in an uptrend: above its 200-day average for 210 trading days, with the 50-day average above the 200-day.
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)Top 30%
- FCF growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 6%
- Revenue growth, 3-year CAGRBottom 10%
- Revenue growth accelerationBottom 16%
Returns on capital, margins, earnings quality and balance-sheet strength.
- Return on invested capitalBottom 31%
- Gross marginTop 40%
- Operating marginBottom 31%
- Accruals (lower is better)Bottom 45%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Top 2%
- Interest coverBottom 12%
How cheap the shares are relative to earnings, cash flow and their own history.
- Earnings yieldBottom 37%
- Free-cash-flow yieldBottom 28%
- EBITDA / enterprise valueBottom 30%
- Sales / enterprise valueBottom 28%
Strength and persistence of the price trend, including versus the S&P 500.
- 12-month return excluding last monthTop 16%
- 6-month returnBottom 33%
- 1-year return vs S&P 500Top 21%
- Distance from 52-week highTop 1%
- Trend checklist (0–4)Top 18%
Earnings surprises and analyst sentiment (estimate-revision history is being collected).
- Average EPS surprise, last 4 quartersBottom 39%
- Consecutive EPS beatsTop 32%
- Share of analysts rating BuyBottom 48%
- Upside to consensus price targetBottom 4%
Low volatility, shallow drawdowns, low market sensitivity and modest leverage.
- Volatility, 60 days (lower is better)Top 1%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 yearsTop 19%
- Beta vs S&P 500 (lower is better)Top 36%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Top 2%
What changed
Latest four quarters versus the same period a year earlier (growth: versus one quarter earlier).
| Measure | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 25.1% | 21.7% | ↓ |
| Gross margin | 55.0% | 59.9% | ↑ |
| Operating margin | -16.1% | -3.8% | ↑ |
| FCF margin | 10.7% | -0.6% | ↓ |
Fundamental momentum
| Measure | Now (TTM) | Year / quarter before | Sector rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (TTM, YoY) | 21.7% | 25.1% | ↓ | Top 30% |
| Gross margin | 59.9% | 55.0% | ↑ | Top 40% |
| Operating margin | -3.8% | -16.1% | ↑ | Bottom 31% |
| Net margin | -4.6% | -14.9% | ↑ | — |
| Free-cash-flow margin | -0.6% | 10.7% | ↓ | — |
| Return on invested capital | -2.8% | — | Bottom 31% | |
| Revenue growth, 3-year CAGR | -8.5% | — | Bottom 10% |
Quality of earnings and balance sheet
- Accruals (net income − OCF) / assetsLower is better; high accruals can signal weaker earnings quality.
- -5.8%
- Stock-based compensation / revenueA cost to shareholders through dilution.
- 10.2%
- Receivables growth vs revenue growthReceivables growing much faster than sales can be a warning.
- +19.5 pp
- Net debt / EBITDABelow 1× is conservative; above 3× is high leverage.
- -35.40×
- Interest cover (operating income / interest)How many times operating profit covers interest.
- -34.8×
Shareholder returns
- Dividend yield (dividends paid, TTM)
- 0.00%
- Net buyback yield (TTM)
- -0.19%
- Shareholder yield
- -0.19%
- Share count change, 1 year
- +1.6%
- Share count change, 3-year CAGR
- +0.3%
Shareholder yield = dividends + net buybacks over the last four quarters, divided by market cap.
Based on the four quarters through Jul 4, 2026 (filed Aug 11, 2026).
Earnings and expectations
Earnings momentum
- Consecutive EPS beats
- 6
- Beats in the last 8 reports
- 7 of 8
- Average EPS surprise, last 4
- +5.4%
- Average 2-day reaction, last 8
- +6.2%
- Positive 20 days after report
- 6 of 8
Analysts
- Consensus price target
- $183.40
- Target vs current price
- -17.7%
- Analysts with a rating
- 38
- Share rating Buy or Strong Buy
- 63%
- Consensus rating
- Buy
How the stock reacted to recent reports
| Report date | EPS surprise | 2 days | 5 days | 20 days | 60 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 2026 | +2.9% | +0.2% | +0.4% | +0.7% | — |
| May 5, 2026 | +8.2% | +0.6% | +0.1% | +0.8% | -0.0% |
| Feb 4, 2026 | +3.7% | +48.9% | +51.1% | +49.0% | +59.3% |
| Nov 4, 2025 | +6.7% | -0.9% | +2.1% | +1.1% | +11.3% |
| Aug 5, 2025 | +22.2% | -5.1% | -6.5% | -2.4% | +2.4% |
| May 13, 2025 | +10.9% | +5.7% | +1.1% | +10.0% | -1.6% |
| Feb 4, 2025 | +0.0% | +1.3% | +8.6% | -0.6% | -24.5% |
| Nov 4, 2024 | +35.0% | -1.4% | +5.5% | +8.6% | +27.6% |
Returns from the close before each report. Past reactions do not determine future ones.
Earnings history
| Report date | EPS | Estimate | Surprise | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 2026 | $0.71 | $0.69 | +2.9% | $228.2M |
| May 5, 2026 | $0.53 | $0.49 | +8.2% | $213.5M |
| Feb 4, 2026 | $0.56 | $0.54 | +3.7% | $208.2M |
| Nov 4, 2025 | $0.32 | $0.30 | +6.7% | $206.0M |
| Aug 5, 2025 | $0.11 | $0.09 | +22.2% | $192.8M |
| May 13, 2025 | -$0.08 | -$0.09 | +10.9% | $177.7M |
| Feb 4, 2025 | -$0.11 | -$0.11 | +0.0% | $166.2M |
| Nov 4, 2024 | -$0.13 | -$0.20 | +35.0% | $166.4M |
Valuation in context
| Multiple | Now | 5-year median | 5-year percentile | Sector rank (cheapness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E (forward) | 76.6× | — | — | — |
| EV / EBITDA | 682.7× | — | — | Bottom 30% |
| EV / Sales | 8.16× | — | — | Bottom 28% |
| Free-cash-flow yield | -0.07% | — | — | Bottom 28% |
| Earnings yield | -0.53% | — | — | Bottom 37% |
P/E over the past five years
Range 2.8× – 142.4× since Jul 3, 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
- 28
- Days above the 200-day average
- 210
- 50-day average slope (20 days)
- +0.5%
- 200-day average slope (20 days)
- +4.7%
- Distance from 50-day average
- +1.6%
- Distance from 200-day average
- +9.9%
- RSI (14)
- 68.5
- Relative volume
- 1.07×
Risk and drawdowns
- Volatility, 60 days (annualized)
- 3.8%
- Volatility vs own 5-year history
- 1th percentile · Low for this stock
- Beta vs S&P 500 (2 years, weekly)
- 1.21
- Correlation with S&P 500
- 0.37
- Current drawdown from 1-year high
- +0.0%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 years
- -45.7%
Largest declines in the past six years
| From peak | To low | Decline | Length | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 2021 | Apr 8, 2025 | -59.0% | 850 days | 250 days (Apr 8, 2026) |
| Feb 19, 2021 | May 12, 2021 | -24.5% | 57 days | 117 days (Oct 27, 2021) |
Declines of 10% or more from a closing high, measured on daily closes.
Financial statements
- Market cap
- $7.35B
- EPS, diluted (TTM)
- -$1.18
- Revenue (TTM)
- $855.9M
- 52-week range
- $115.51 – $223.50
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $720.9M | $1.02B | $782.3M | $584.4M | $784.8M |
| Gross profit | $425.4M | $642.6M | $460.6M | $312.2M | $457.0M |
| Operating income | -$32.8M | $119.3M | -$24.2M | -$165.5M | -$70.5M |
| Net income | $2.12B | $91.4M | -$34.5M | -$191.0M | -$64.9M |
| EPS (diluted) | $47.78 | $2.54 | -$1.09 | -$5.93 | -$1.98 |
| Q3 2024 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $166.4M | $166.2M | $177.7M | $192.8M | $206.0M | $208.2M | $213.5M | $228.2M |
| Net income | -$28.5M | -$23.8M | -$30.5M | -$21.8M | -$9.9M | -$2.7M | -$15.9M | -$10.6M |
| EPS (diluted) | -$0.88 | -$0.73 | -$0.94 | -$0.67 | -$0.30 | -$0.08 | -$0.48 | -$0.32 |
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | -$100.4M | $71.8M | -$30.3M | -$13.9M | $95.7M |
| Capital expenditure | -$28.6M | -$26.5M | -$22.3M | -$11.7M | -$29.9M |
| Free cash flow | -$129.0M | $45.3M | -$52.6M | -$25.7M | $65.8M |
| Dividends paid | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Net share buybacks | -$1.14B | -$871.6M | -$202.5M | $16.3M | $14.6M |
Cash outflows are shown as negative numbers.
- Cash and short-term investments
- $397.2M
- Total assets
- $1.25B
- Total liabilities
- $158.3M
- Total debt
- $0
- Net debt
- -$362.2M
- Shareholders’ equity
- $1.09B
As of Jul 4, 2026 (filed Aug 11, 2026).
Short interest
- Shares sold short
- 2,600,883
- Days to cover
- 8.28
- Change vs previous report
- -5.6%
FINRA short interest, settlement date Sep 15, 2026.