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Semis & Hardware: the moats, the numbers, the verdicts.

33 companies covered. Every report re-run after the latest earnings.

Analog Devices, Inc. ADI

Analog Devices has accelerated its revenue growth in every one of the last six quarters, from 22% to 40%.

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Astera Labs, Inc. Common Stock ALAB

Revenue more than doubled year over year for the sixth quarter running, and the shares are 43% below their high.

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Applied Materials, Inc. AMAT

Applied Materials has ranged from $154.47 to $739.67 in a year and sits at $484.19, which tells you the market cannot decide what this company is.

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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD

AMD's data centre revenue doubled to $6.72B in a year and that segment's operating income went from a $155M loss to a $2.10B profit.

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Arista Networks, Inc. ANET

Its deferred revenue grew 27.8% in six months to $6.87B, which is customers paying in advance for equipment not yet delivered.

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Amphenol Corporation APH

Amphenol spent $10.68B on acquisitions this year and its cash fell from $11.13B to $4.73B.

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ASML Holding N.V. ASML

You are paying $1,629 a share (€1,414 at about $1.15 per euro), 37x FY2026 consensus earnings, for the only company on earth that sells EUV lithography machines, in a year manageme

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Broadcom Inc. AVGO

Broadcom's contracted future revenue went from $45.0B to $164.6B in a single quarter, on one custom artificial-intelligence chip contract.

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Canaan Inc. CAN

At $0.31 you are paying ≈$214M for a Bitcoin-mining ASIC maker sitting on ≈$165M of cash-plus-crypto, ≈$530M of FY2025 revenue, and roughly half its own book value; the market is b

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Cognex Corporation CGNX

You are paying roughly 11 times revenue and 44 times this year's earnings, about $11 billion near a 52-week high after more than doubling off the low, for the leading independent m

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Celestica Inc. CLS

Celestica's revenue grew 62% last quarter and three customers accounted for 63% of it.

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Coherent, Inc. COHR

Coherent's data centre revenue grew 58.6% last quarter and the company burned through a billion dollars of cash doing it.

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Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd CRDO

Two customers are 81% of it, and the largest one's share fell from 67% to 49% while that was happening.

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Cisco Systems, Inc. CSCO

Cisco took $5.3B of artificial-intelligence infrastructure orders in nine months and raised its full-year expectation to $9B from $5B.

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Intel Corp. INTC

Intel made $1.80B of operating profit last quarter and reported an $11.03B net loss.

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nLIGHT, Inc. LASR

nLIGHT is a small-cap laser maker that has quietly become a defense company, with Aerospace and Defense now 67% of FY2025 revenue and directed-energy weapon programs its declared f

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Lam Research Corporation LRCX

Deferred revenue fell over the same year, from $2.68B to $2.43B, because customers put down less money in advance.

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Microchip Technology Incorporated MCHP

Microchip paid out $984.0M of dividends last fiscal year and generated $962.1M of operating cash flow.

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Marvell Technology, Inc. MRVL

Marvell sold its automotive ethernet business to Infineon for $2.5B last August and booked a $1.8B gain, which is why one quarter shows $1.90B of net income against $357.8M of oper

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Micron Technology, Inc. MU

Micron's revenue grew 345.7% last quarter and its gross margin went from 38% to 85%.

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NVIDIA Corporation NVDA

NVIDIA grew revenue 85% last quarter, to $81.6B, and its growth rate has accelerated for four consecutive quarters at that scale.

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ON Semiconductor Corporation ON

ON Semiconductor's revenue fell 22.4%, then 15.4%, then 12.0%, then 11.2%. The last two quarters it grew 4.7% and 9.2%.

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Ondas Holdings Inc. ONDS

You are paying a $4.9B market cap for a defense-robotics roll-up that did $50.7M of revenue in all of FY2025 and another $50.1M in Q1 2026 alone, sits on roughly $652M of cash and

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Onto Innovation Inc. ONTO

Onto Innovation is the advanced-packaging-tilted metrology and inspection specialist, debt-free with net cash, whose stock has gone from $89 to $336 in a year as the market priced

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QUALCOMM Incorporated QCOM

Qualcomm took a $5.7B tax charge in one quarter and released the same $5.7B four quarters later, which produced a reported loss and then a reported windfall from nothing.

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Super Micro Computer, Inc. SMCI

Super Micro's revenue more than doubled to $12.68B in a single quarter and its gross margin fell from 11.8% to 6.3% in the same three months.

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Sandisk Corporation SNDK

Revenue over the same span went from $1.70B a quarter to $8.97B, and the shares from a low of $46.75 to $1,503.

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STMicroelectronics N.V. STM

STMicroelectronics is the largest European chipmaker, and after a two-year industrial downcycle that took earnings to near-zero, the stock has run from $21 to $79 in roughly a year

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Seagate Technology Holdings plc STX

Two years ago Seagate lost $2.56 a share; the fiscal year just closed earned $13.90, the gross margin hit 52%, and the stock has quintupled to a $190B market cap on hard drives.

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Teledyne Technologies Incorporated TDY

Teledyne carries $8.66B of goodwill against $10.92B of equity, which is what thirty years of buying small companies looks like on a balance sheet.

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited TSM

TSMC printed the strongest quarter in its history on July 16, 36% revenue growth, a record 67.7% gross margin, and a third 2026 guidance raise in a single year, and the stock still

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Western Digital Corporation WDC

Western Digital's gross margin rose in six consecutive quarters, from 37.7% to 50.2%, with no reversal.

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Wolfspeed Inc. WOLF

Wolfspeed is the only Western pure-play silicon-carbide maker, fresh out of Chapter 11, now carrying $1.8B of debt against $1.16B of cash and a restored positive book equity, on a

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