MaxLinear, Inc

MXL Technology Semiconductors

MaxLinear, Inc’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $467.6 million, up 29.7% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+72.4%
EPS
+161.5%
Free cash flow
−786.9%
Total debt
+32.9%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

45.13 11.72 −20.62%
Market cap
$5.2B
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
243×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
1.90
Beneish M
−3.66
Dividend safety
n/a

MaxLinear, Inc (MXL) Operating margin

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MaxLinear, Inc's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was −0.92%, up 26.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (−27.1%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −62.0% (fiscal 2024) to 16.3% (fiscal 2016); the current reading is higher than 18% of that period. That is below the Semiconductors industry median of 5.47% and below the Technology sector median of 0.02%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 −27.1% 34.82
FY2024 −62.0% (56.44)
FY2023 −5.51% (21.60)
FY2022 16.1% 8.78
FY2021 7.31% 28.44
FY2020 −21.1% (14.18)
FY2019 −6.95% (1.99)
FY2018 −4.96% 0.20
FY2017 −5.16% (21.42)
FY2016 16.3% 30.79

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 13.9% 16.34
Jun 2026 −2.48% 10.06
Mar 2026 −12.5% (1.62)
Dec 2025 −10.9% 21.73
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Against its own ten years

Low −62.0% High 16.3%
Ten-year median −5.51%
Current reading's percentile 67

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. compare 22.5%
SIMO Silicon Motion Technology Corporation compare 21.3%
ALGM Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. compare 7.53%
VSH Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. compare 5.21%
DIOD Diodes Incorporated compare 4.76%
PI Impinj, Inc. compare −0.71%
MXL MaxLinear, Inc −0.92%
SYNA Synaptics Incorporated compare −4.72%
SLAB Silicon Laboratories, Inc. compare −5.06%
Semiconductors industry median 5.47%
Technology sector median 0.02%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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