Photronics, Inc.

PLAB Technology Semiconductor Equipment & Materials

Photronics, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended October 2025) was $849.3 million, down 2.04% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to July 2026, revenue grew 2.69%, EPS grew 25.0%, free cash flow grew 56.1% and total debt rose 14,318.5%, each against the same quarter a year earlier.

27.52 1.01 −3.54%
Market cap
$1.7B
P/E
9.7×
Fwd P/E
14.0×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
6.06
Beneish M
−2.32
Dividend safety
n/a

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total sells 24.17
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell — 6 10 — 3 18 — — — — 4 —
Insider Ownership 2.53%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 1,680.00
Revenue 866.82
Net Income 225.93
Free Cash Flow 110.48
Net Debt (668.92)
Current Ratio 4.94 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt/Equity 0.00 (at or below 0.5: strong)
P/E ratio 9.66
Fwd P/E 14.00
P/S ratio 1.85
P/B ratio 0.92
Past 5Y EPS Growth 34.40% (at or above 15%: strong)
This Y EPS Growth 0.00%
Next Y EPS Growth 1.99%
Next Y revenue growth 2.20%
Next 5Y EPS Growth 2.82%

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 10.91%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 86.55%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 61.85%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 67.01%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 55.19%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio —
Annual Dividend Rate —
Annual Dividend Yield —
total individual payouts
2022 Powerpack
2021 Powerpack
2020 Powerpack
2019 Powerpack
2017 Powerpack
special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 512 641 588 673
Receivables 195 201 196 188
Inventory 50 57 62 65
Other 28 33 44 50
785 931 890 975
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 84 79 84 117
ST’ Debt 7 18 0 4
Other — — — —
185 184 166 197

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 4.94% 6.85% 0.99%
Cash Flow 6.40% 11.62% (3.43%)
Earnings 11.82% 32.17% 4.72%
Book Value 7.68% 10.67% 14.57%

Revenue $m

Jan Apr Jul Oct Year
’26 225 210 216 — —
’25 212 211 210 216 849
’24 216 217 211 223 867
’23 211 229 224 227 892
’22 190 205 220 210 825
’21 152 160 171 181 664
’20 160 143 158 149 610
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Jan Apr Jul Oct Year
’26 97 47 76 — —
’25 78 31 50 88 248
’24 42 76 75 68 261
’23 28 82 86 107 302
’22 59 44 93 79 275
’21 26 32 55 38 151
’20 31 31 17 65 143
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Jan Apr Jul Oct Year
’26 50 1 39 — —
’25 43 (29) 25 20 60
’24 (2) 56 51 25 130
’23 (3) 55 65 54 171
’22 40 29 81 13 163
’21 9 (24) 36 21 42
’20 17 14 10 31 72
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Jan Apr Jul Oct Year
’26 0.74 0.54 0.49 — —
’25 0.68 0.15 0.39 1.07 2.28
’24 0.42 0.58 0.55 0.54 2.09
’23 0.23 0.65 0.44 0.72 2.03
’22 0.38 0.49 0.51 0.60 1.94
’21 0.13 0.17 0.28 0.33 0.89
’20 0.16 0.10 0.17 0.10 0.52
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

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1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to October

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 8.20 7.55 7.20 7.95 8.31 10.89 13.87 13.86 20.25 16.46

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 12.40 11.95 11.00 16.75 16.01 19.40 25.81 32.60 34.16 39.80
People
People Employees 1,530 1,475 1,575 1,775 1,728 1,728 1,828 1,885 1,878 1,908
Revenue/emp, $m 0.32 0.31 0.34 0.31 0.35 0.38 0.45 0.47 0.46 0.45
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 483 451 535 551 610 664 825 892 867 849
Gross margin, % 24.55 20.26 24.57 21.94 22.09 25.17 35.68 37.68 36.44 35.30
EBT 60 27 69 51 62 102 239 270 247 222
EBT margin, % 12.51 5.89 12.81 9.21 10.10 15.37 28.99 30.26 28.54 26.11
Net income 56 21 61 40 40 79 179 200 184 190
Depreciation 83 87 84 84 94 90 80 81 83 78
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 7.16 6.59 7.78 8.30 9.40 10.81 13.62 14.59 14.05 14.25
Earnings 0.68 0.19 0.61 0.45 0.52 0.90 1.96 2.05 2.12 2.29
Cash flow 1.81 1.41 1.90 1.03 2.21 2.46 4.54 4.94 4.24 4.16
Capex (0.74) (1.36) (1.35) (2.69) (1.09) (1.78) (1.86) (2.15) (2.12) (3.16)
Free cash flow 1.07 0.06 0.55 (1.66) 1.11 0.68 2.69 2.79 2.11 1.00
Book value 12.22 12.64 13.14 13.73 14.83 16.29 17.54 20.86 23.99 26.80
Shares, m 68 68 69 66 65 61 61 61 62 60
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 14.06 48.50 15.97 25.65 19.11 14.92 8.15 8.96 10.70 10.35
P/S 1.36 1.47 1.25 1.42 1.08 1.26 1.19 1.26 1.62 1.68
P/B 0.79 0.77 0.74 0.86 0.68 0.83 0.92 0.88 0.95 0.89
EV/Sales 0.84 0.93 0.85 1.14 0.73 1.01 0.81 0.71 0.91 0.98
EV/FCF 5.95 144.76 12.61 (5.66) 6.23 16.25 4.10 3.73 6.04 14.14
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 122 97 131 68 143 151 275 302 261 248
Capex (50) (93) (93) (178) (71) (109) (113) (131) (131) (188)
Free cash flow 72 4 38 (110) 72 42 163 171 130 60
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 360 367 312 276 357 374 451 600 747 724
Total debt 67 62 57 53 69 112 42 25 18 0
Net debt (247) (246) (272) (154) (210) (165) (316) (488) (623) (588)
Shareholders’ equity 825 865 905 911 962 1,001 1,062 1,276 1,481 1,597
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 4.55 1.31 3.95 2.67 2.93 4.47 9.10 8.83 8.07 7.76
ROIC 5.67 3.22 6.48 4.30 5.31 7.07 17.75 20.07 16.13 12.89
ROE 5.82 1.55 4.75 3.28 3.61 5.65 11.52 10.74 9.48 8.86
Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Oct 2025 · latest quarter Jul 2026

Charts ten years each

Photronics, Inc. vs peers in Semiconductor Equipment & Materials (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
ACLS Axcelis Technologies, Inc. $3.6B 36.1× 59.9× +10.60% (above 0%: growing) −23.23% (below 0%: shrinking) −60.74% (below 0%: shrinking) 42.38% 9.43% Compare
IPGP IPG Photonics Corporation $3.1B 108× 82.3× +11.11% (above 0%: growing) −25.00% (below 0%: shrinking) +200.46% (above 0%: growing) 40.39% 1.63% Compare
AMBA Ambarella, Inc. $2.8B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +13.21% (above 0%: growing) n/m −612.08% (below 0%: shrinking) 57.73% (7.53%) Compare
VECO Veeco Instruments Inc. $2.8B 113× 57.6× +16.48% (above 0%: growing) −5.00% (below 0%: shrinking) +776.15% (above 0%: growing) 38.68% 6.13% Compare
COHU Cohu, Inc. $2.6B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +38.37% (above 0%: growing) n/m −39.36% (below 0%: shrinking) 45.36% 0.20% Compare
UCTT Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. $2.5B — (loss-making) 98.9× +24.31% (above 0%: growing) n/m −558.40% (below 0%: shrinking) 16.08% 4.57% Compare
AEHR Aehr Test Systems $2.3B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +33.69% (above 0%: growing) n/m +133.16% (above 0%: growing) 42.57% (6.40%) Compare
ICHR Ichor Holdings, Ltd. $1.8B — (loss-making) 93.0× +22.68% (above 0%: growing) n/m −59.76% (below 0%: shrinking) 13.90% 2.44% Compare
PLAB Photronics, Inc. $1.7B 9.7× 14.0× +2.69% (above 0%: growing) +25.00% (above 0%: growing) +56.06% (above 0%: growing) 33.20% 21.06%
Median of peers $2.7B 108× 82.3× +19.58% −23.23% −49.56% 41.39% 2.04%

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Photronics, Inc. (PLAB) key facts

  • Concern: Photronics, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended October 2025) was $849.3 million, down 2.04% from fiscal 2024.
  • Strength: Net income was $190.2 million, or $2.29 per share (basic), a net margin of 16.1%.
  • Photronics, Inc. (PLAB) is a Semiconductor Equipment & Materials company in the Technology sector, listed on Nasdaq.
  • As of October 16, 2026, PLAB traded at $27.52, a market capitalization of $1.7 billion.
  • At that price the stock trades at 9.7× trailing-twelve-month earnings and 1.8× sales; its P/E is higher than 11% of its own readings over the past ten years.
  • Return on equity was 8.86% and debt-to-equity 0.00.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 6 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 6.06 (safe zone) for fiscal 2025.

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