as of 2026-10-27
Report date
Oct 27, 2026
Web data generated
2026-10-27 10:40 AM PDT
Alpha report generated
2026-10-27 10:39 AM PDT
Alpha web build revision a0db9018688dAlpha web package 20261027T174132245783Z-8f3a46c3207d

MRVL

Marvell Technology

MRVL

TechnologySemiconductors$204.7B market cap
Meridian score94Rank #44 of 695as of Oct 27Strong
ResearchAvoidResearch view at today's price $233.78 (Oct 26, 2026): price 24% above fair valueReport Oct 22, 2026 (5 d old)
Fair value · restated Oct 26, 2026$188
Record view · restated Oct 26, 2026 · at the report price $223.47Avoid · price 19% above fair value
Close · Oct 26, 2026$233.78

Our model’s output

Inference

Price $233.78 on Oct 26, 2026 is 24% above our fair value $188: Avoid (Hold below $221); the Street averages $328

US dollars per share

Custom chips FY2029-32 vs our path swings value from $160 to $218, the widest of the drivers

US dollars per share, one driver at our 10th and 90th percentile and the rest central ($188)

Custom chips FY2029-32 vs our path: the price needs 1.39x against our 1.00x

Any one of these on its own would justify the price; each in its own unit, the band our 10th to 90th percentile

The price is justified in 20-50% of our scenarios; the middle outcome is $175

US dollars per share; 4,000 simulated outcomes

Results due Dec 1, 2026: our figure is above the Street's on 1 of 1 metrics

Each metric in the unit its name gives; the band is our low to high

QualityB Quality: 79th percentile
MomentumA Momentum: 95th percentile
GrowthA Growth: 92nd percentile
ValuationD Valuation: 12th percentile
ExpectationsD Expectations: 19th percentile
ResearchLatest: Avoid · price 24% above fair value · fair value $188 · restated Oct 26, 2026Show reportHide report
Report

We value MRVL at $188 a share. The report's $223.47 price (Oct 22, 2026) was 19% above fair value: Avoid.

Restated Oct 26, 2026 (method case-spread-2026-10-24); the report's original value was $188, Avoid.

Five-year return
9.2%
a year, at the report's price
Return
+4.6%
vs SPY
+4.4%
vs benchmark
Missing

Close of Oct 22, 2026 to close of Oct 26, 2026

What would change the view

  • Fiscal 2028 data-center revenue (or management's outlook for it) above about $21B, 1.18x today's target: the price is justified
  • Custom-chip revenue in fiscal 2029 above about $13.8B (1.39x our $9.9B), on the way to management's $30B for fiscal 2031: the price is justified
  • The big four cloud buyers guide capital spending growth for 2028 and beyond, against our sector view's flat path: our central moves toward management's plan ($367 on that path)
  • The big four buyers cut 2028 capital spending by 20% or more: our pessimistic path, $42
  • Fewer than four Google warrant tranches vested (each one $500M of Google custom revenue) by the end of fiscal 2028: the Google program is slipping against our central
  • Non-GAAP operating margin above 41% for fiscal 2028 as a whole, above the top of Marvell's 38-40% guide: our margin cap is too low

Catalysts

  1. Q3 fiscal 2027 results (date unconfirmed: Robinhood, not verified by the company) and the Q4 guide. We expect revenue of $3.18B (range $3.10-3.23B) and a Q4 outlook midpoint near $3.63B
  2. The big four cloud buyers' 2027 capital spending guides with their Q4 results (late January to early February 2027; we use 2027-02-05). Flat or rising supports our central; a cut of 20% or more is our pessimistic path
  3. Q4 fiscal 2027 results (about early March 2027, unconfirmed), the latest point for any change to management's ~$20B fiscal 2028 target. Each $1B of fiscal 2028 data-center revenue is worth about $11 a share in our model; a data-center outlook above about $21B would justify today's price alone

Next results preview

Results expected Dec 1, 2026. Street: FMP earnings revenueEstimated, captured Oct 22, 2026, 2:07 PM PDT.

MetricOursOur rangeStreet
Revenue ($B)3.183.1 to 3.233.15
Data center revenue ($B)2.692.59 to 2.75none
Diluted EPS ($, non-GAAP)1.111.06 to 1.15none
Diluted EPS ($, GAAP)0.530.38 to 0.65none
Fourth quarter FY2027 revenue outlook, midpoint of the range ($B)3.633.45 to 3.85none
Diluted shares (M, non-GAAP)921915 to 929none

This text argues the original call. The current figures are at the top.

Avoid, at the edge of Hold: at $223.47 Marvell trades 16% above our $188 fair value; 1% more value would make it a Hold. Our blind work, done before we looked at the price, said $259 and Buy. Two outside reviewers and our own report check found two errors that together cost about $67 a share, and we accept both (section 9):

  • The exit multiple compared unlike profits. We valued Marvell's 2032 profits at the 44.4x price-to-operating-profit ratio its peers have carried, but the peers' ratio is measured on profits after amortizing acquired intangibles, which for Broadcom and AMD is billions of dollars a year, while ours is before it. On a like basis the peers' ratio is 32.3x (SEC filings, anchor_ebita.txt). Worth -$46.
  • Our margins ran ahead of what Marvell itself guides. Marvell's finance chief said on 2026-08-27 that the non-GAAP operating margin (before stock pay and amortization) reaches the upper end of 38-40% during fiscal 2028; our blind model had 41.9% for the year and 44% by 2032. We now hold fiscal 2028 at 39.5% and let the margin rise with scale toward management's 44-46% only as far as our smaller revenue path reaches. Worth -$21.

Our revenue view is unchanged. We take management's target of about $20B in fiscal 2028 (the year to January 2028; Marvell's year ends in late January), because Marvell has beaten the midpoint of its own revenue guidance in each of the last 11 quarters. We do not take its $70-90B plan for fiscal 2031: our central reaches $35.6B, because our sector view holds the big four cloud buyers' capital spending flat in 2027-2029.

On the owner's question, whether semiconductors are oversold: Marvell fell 8.7% on 2026-10-22 and 26% from its high in the week of 2026-10-05, and the sector fund SOXX is 2% above its late-July low. On our method Marvell is still worth less than its price, though only just below our Hold line. The price needs either management's long-range plan or a peer multiple near the one we corrected away.

Terms. The central case is our best estimate; the pessimistic and optimistic cases are coherent alternative outcomes we weight 25% each. Custom chips are processors (XPUs) and supporting chips (XPU-attach) that Marvell designs to one cloud company's specification. The rest of data center is Marvell's own catalogue: optical signal processors for the fibre links between AI servers, plus network switches and storage controllers. The fade values the business after 2032 by letting its returns fall toward the cost of capital; the outside view values it at what comparable companies traded at.

1. What Marvell sells and what limits it

Data center was 74% of fiscal 2026 revenue ($6.1B of $8.2B) and 79% of Q2 fiscal 2027 ($2.17B of $2.74B); the rest is chips for carrier and enterprise networks (10-K FY2026; release 2026-08-27). Three things limit it:

  • Few buyers. The top ten customers were 82% of fiscal 2026 revenue; one direct customer was 16% and one distributor 44% of Q2 fiscal 2027 revenue (10-Q Q2 FY2027). Custom programs are won and lost one cloud company at a time.
  • The cloud build itself. Four buyers (Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta) guide $733B of capital spending for 2026 (sector note). Marvell's data-center revenue was 0.83% of that in fiscal 2026; our central has it rising to 4.0% by fiscal 2031 (output.txt).
  • Lower margins on custom. Custom chips carry lower gross margins than Marvell's own products (management, Q2 FY2027 call), so the blended margin drifts down as custom grows; management guides 56-59% for fiscal 2031 against 58.9% in Q2 fiscal 2027.

The customers have also bought into Marvell. NVIDIA paid $2.0B for preferred stock convertible into 21.8M shares (8-K 2026-03-31). Alphabet holds a warrant for up to 59.0M shares at $206.58 that vests one tranche per $500M of Google custom-chip revenue through fiscal 2033, and vests only on Google's discretionary purchases (8-K 2026-08-19); Amazon holds warrants tied to its purchases. We count them case by case.

2. Recent results against the bar

Q2 fiscal 2027 (to 2026-08-01): revenue $2,739M against a $2,700M guide midpoint (+1.5%); non-GAAP EPS $0.94 against $0.93. Marvell's record against its own revenue midpoint over the 11 quarters we read runs +0.3% to +4.6%, median +0.95%; an outside reviewer found a miss outside that window, Q3 fiscal 2023 at -1.5% (preview.txt). The Q3 guide is $3.15B ±5%, with data center up more than 20% from Q2 and communications down in the low-to-mid teens.

Stock pay is rising fast: $534M in the first half of fiscal 2027 against $591M in all of fiscal 2026, after the Celestial AI purchase (10-Q Q2 FY2027). The Q3 guide is $285M, 43% of non-GAAP operating cost; we use 43% and charge it as a cost.

3. Our forecast and value

The model (model.py, output.txt) forecasts three lines to fiscal 2032 and values them with the shared method: free cash flow paid to shareholders, plus an exit price in January 2032.

Fiscal year 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032
Custom chips ($B) 5.5 9.9 12.4 14.4 15.8
Rest of data center ($B) 12.3 14.8 16.8 18.8 20.7
Communications ($B) 2.3 2.3 2.4 2.4 2.5
Revenue ($B) 20.1 27.0 31.6 35.6 39.0
Non-GAAP operating margin 39.5% 40.6% 41.0% 41.3% 41.6%
Operating profit after stock pay ($B) 6.3 9.0 10.7 12.3 13.6
Free cash flow ($B) 3.2 5.4 7.3 8.7 9.9

The margin row is the lower of two rules: operating cost growing at half the rate of revenue (management's rule for fiscal 2028), and a cap of 39.5% in fiscal 2028 rising from 40% at $20B of revenue toward 45% at $80B, a line through management's near-term guide and its fiscal 2031 target (Q2 FY2027 call; Investor Day 2026-10-06). The cap binds in every central year.

The exit averages two estimates. Letting returns fade toward the 12.9% cost of capital gives $188 a share; the peers' 32.3x EV over operating profit before acquisition amortization (Broadcom 19.3x, NVIDIA 45.4x, AMD 66.1x, Qualcomm 15.5x, ten-year medians of fiscal year-ends; anchor_ebita.txt) gives $487. The method averages them: $338. At the method's default 44.4x, which divides by profits after amortization, the central would be $234. The price needs about 42x on a like basis. The two estimates differ because the fade, at a 12.9% cost of capital and a 20% long-run return on new capital, pays 12.3x year-six after-tax profit, about 10.5x pre-tax, against the peers' 32.3x: the peers' history prices a growth runway the fade does not grant.

Shares at exit: 921.2M today plus 15.5M from the Google warrant on our central path, 10.3M from the Celestial AI earnout and 4.0M from Amazon warrants: 950.9M. Google's exercise cash at $206.58 is counted at the exit; in the pessimistic case the exit price is below that, so Google's warrant is left unexercised.

The pessimistic case ($42) is an AI spending pause: fiscal 2028 revenue $16.6B, then data center flat and falling 20% in fiscal 2030, the sector note's pessimistic shape, with custom gross margin at 45%. The optimistic case ($352) puts fiscal 2031 revenue at $57.6B, still below management's $70B low end. A path toward management's plan ($63.4B in fiscal 2031, 43.6% margin) is worth about $367 in our model.

4. Market expectations and how the price reacted

Weekly closes (TradingView, regular session): $81.69 in the week of 2026-02-23; a high of $329.88 in the week of 2026-06-15; a low of $162.90 in the week of 2026-07-27; a high of $301.27 in the week of 2026-10-05, the week of the Investor Day; $227.83 in the week of 2026-10-12. On 2026-10-22 the regular session ended at $223.47 against $244.76 the day before (Robinhood), down 8.7%, while SOXX fell 6.8% to $475.56 from $510.36. We did not check the day's news for a company-specific cause; the sector fell with it.

Running our model backwards, the price is justified by any one of: fiscal 2028 data-center revenue 18% above management's target; custom revenue at 1.39x our path; the rest of data center growing 8.9 points a year faster; or a peer multiple of about 42x on profits before amortization (odds.json, output.txt). The first two ask for more than management guides for fiscal 2028 or than our custom path, which is already near management's $12B-plus for fiscal 2029 in the optimistic case.

Alpha, our momentum model, ranks Marvell 55th of about 700 on 2026-10-22 (tier Strong): growth A, momentum A, quality B, expectations D, valuation D. It ranks on momentum and growth; we value the business. The two disagree because the stock's rise has run ahead of the value we find.

Timing, a quick chart read: the stock is inside a $163-330 range since June, made a lower high in October ($301 against $330) and sits near the August-September lows of $200-215; below those, the July low of $163 is the next level. Grade C: no trend to lean on either way. Timing is beside the view, never an input to it.

5. Where we differ from the Street

The Street is more optimistic than we are. Its averages (FMP, 2026-10-22) are revenue of $19.5B, $31.4B, $48.1B and $75.0B for fiscal 2028-31 (ours $20.1B, $27.0B, $31.6B, $35.6B), close to management's plan. Its average target of $328 discounted one year at our cost of equity is $290; the targets span a year, and the last month's average is $361. We agree with the Street on fiscal 2028 and differ after it: the long-range plan needs the big buyers' capital spending to keep growing, and our sector view has it flat to 2029.

6. Why the other side could be right

The case for the price: management's plan. Run through our model, a path toward it is worth about $367, and Marvell has raised its fiscal 2028 target twice this year. The Street's revenue path sits near that plan. If the big buyers keep raising capital spending in 2027-2029 instead of holding it flat, our central is too low, and so is our view.

The case for worse: an AI spending pause. Marvell's data-center revenue fell 8% in fiscal 2024 in the last cloud spending digestion (FMP segments). A pause in 2028 with one custom program lost is the pessimistic world in our odds: median $114, the price justified in under 10% of its draws. One direct customer was 16% of Q2 revenue, and the Google warrant vests only on Google's discretionary purchases, while Marvell's $8.5B of foundry commitments are firm (10-Q Q2 FY2027). An outside reviewer's harsher stress, a 20-25x peer multiple in the pause, gives $29-35.

7. Next results: Q3 fiscal 2027, expected 2026-12-01 (not confirmed by the company)

Ranges aim to hold about 80% of outcomes, set from Marvell's record against its own guidance midpoint and widened to allow a miss like Q3 fiscal 2023's (preview.py).

Forecast Ours 80% range Why
Revenue ($B) 3.180 3.103-3.230 guide $3.15B plus the median beat (0.95%)
Data center revenue ($B) 2.686 2.592-2.753 revenue less communications down 13%
Diluted EPS ($, non-GAAP) 1.11 1.06-1.15 guide $1.10 plus the median beat
Diluted EPS ($, GAAP) 0.53 0.38-0.65 guide; the earnout is marked to the stock price
Q4 FY2027 revenue outlook midpoint ($B) 3.629 3.447-3.846 the ~$12B fiscal 2027 target less H1 and our Q3
Diluted shares (M) 921 915-929 guide

The quarter matters less than any change to the fiscal 2028 target: each $1B of fiscal 2028 data-center revenue is worth about $11 a share in our model.

8. Dates to watch, and what would change the view

  • 2026-12-01 (unconfirmed): Q3 results and the Q4 guide.
  • The four big buyers' 2027 capital spending guides (late January to early February 2027): growth beyond 2027 in their plans is the evidence that would move us toward management's path; a cut of 20% or more is our pessimistic path.
  • Any update to the fiscal 2028 target, at the latest with Q4 results (about March 2027): a data-center outlook above about $21B (1.18x today's) would justify the price alone.
  • Google custom revenue: each warrant tranche that vests (10-Qs) marks $500M of Google purchases; fewer than four by the end of fiscal 2028 says the program is slipping.

9. What changed from the blind value, and the review

The blind commit (a58a893) valued Marvell at $259. Two outside reviewers (Codex, one testing the pessimistic case and auditing the model, one arguing the opposite of the call) and a report check (research-eval) reviewed draft 9d545d08c. Each effect below is the central value with that one change undone, from output.txt; undone together with the small items the changes interact, and the three small bridge fixes and their interactions net to -$1.73.

Finding (who) Answer Central effect
Peer multiple on profits after amortization against our profits before it (both reviewers, report check) Fixed: 32.3x EV over operating profit before amortization, from SEC filings (anchor_ebita.py) -$45.62
Margin above Marvell's guide and history (report check) Fixed: fiscal 2028 at 39.5%, then 40% rising with scale toward 45% at $80B. Rejected a cap at the fiscal 2023 high of 35.5%: Q2 fiscal 2027 was already 36.6% and Q4 fiscal 2027 is guided to 38-40% -$20.97
Stock pay at 40% of operating cost too low; Q2 was 53% (advocate) Fixed at the Q3 guide's 43%; 53% shown as a sensitivity (-$9.14) -$2.64
Google exercise cash at $206.58 left out (pessimistic reviewer) Fixed; Google's warrant unexercised in the pessimistic case in -$1.73
Kept cash earned no interest (both, report check) Fixed: risk-free after tax, 4.50% in -$1.73
Operating leases deducted while rent is in operating cost (pessimistic reviewer) Fixed: lease liabilities removed from the claims in -$1.73
Pessimistic case too generous at a 43x multiple (pessimistic reviewer) Fixed by the multiple change: $52 to $42; their 20-25x stress ($29-35) disclosed pessimistic only
The pessimistic case also cuts long-run growth and return (report check) Rejected: a pause that shrinks data-center revenue also shortens the growth runway, and 12% is Marvell's own return with acquisitions pessimistic only
Use Marvell's raw beta of 2.26 (advocate) Rejected: the method uses the peers' median, adjusted toward 1; Marvell's own adjusted beta is shown (-$1.62) none
Working capital 25% of the revenue change, not 20% (advocate) Disclosed: -$1.06 by the advocate's run none
Custom gross margin 48% unsupported (both) Disclosed: the pessimistic case uses 45%; a 40% stress costs about $22 by the pessimistic reviewer's run on the blind model none
Google shares for fiscal 2033 counted at the 2032 exit (pessimistic reviewer) Disclosed: +$0.90 on the blind model if left out none
Next-results ranges held in sample only (advocate) Fixed: low ends widened to allow a miss like Q3 fiscal 2023's forecasts only
Management comparison mislabelled (pessimistic reviewer) Fixed: it is a path toward management's plan, $63.4B, not the plan none
No Alpha view, unlabelled moat and inferences, targets and price moves undated (report check) Fixed in this report none

Both changes rest on filings, not on the price: the amortization data are SEC filings and the margin guide is the 2026-08-27 call, read before the blind commit. Together they moved the central 27%, more than the 20% at which we flag a review's effect for the reader.

10. Sources

Filings masked before reading and pinned in data/: 10-K FY2026; 10-Qs Q1 and Q2 FY2027; releases Q3 FY2024-Q2 FY2027; 8-Ks 2025-12-02 to 2026-09-25 (the 2026-08-19 warrant exercise price read unmasked after the blind commit). Transcripts: Q2 FY2027 call (2026-08-27), Investor Day (2026-10-06). FMP statements, segments and peer betas (2026-10-22). Peers' amortization: SEC XBRL company facts (fetched 2026-10-22). Sector note docs/research/sectors/semis-ai/note.md (2026-10-15). Market pass: Robinhood quote 2026-10-22; FMP targets and estimates via scripts/research-check.py (2026-10-22); TradingView weekly bars (data/market/).

Details

Report date
Oct 22, 2026
Price source
Robinhood last regular-session trade at 15:59:59 ET; the official close was not yet published. Previous close $244.76 (2026-10-21), Oct 22, 2026, 12:59 PM PDT
Bear / bull
$32.77 / $441
Exit price
$338 (on Jan 31, 2032)
Confidence
25%
Price against our scenarios
The price is justified in 20-50% of our scenarios4,000 simulated outcomes, each drawing the uncertain drivers from ranges we chose: our judgement, not a measured chance
Worlds
3 stories about the businessEach outcome first picks one of these stories by its weight, then draws that story's own driver ranges; the answer above is their mix.
World: base (50%)
the base drivers. The price is justified in 20-50% of its scenarios; middle outcome $182, 10th to 90th $92.00 to $361Weight: Our judgment, matching the central case's 50% weight.
World: bear_lean (25%)
an AI spending pause from 2028 and a lost custom program. The price is justified in under 20% of its scenarios; middle outcome $114, 10th to 90th $58.49 to $223Weight: Our judgment, matching the pessimistic case's 25% weight.
World: bull_lean (25%)
custom and optics follow management's FY2031 path part of the way. The price is justified in over 50% of its scenarios; middle outcome $251, 10th to 90th $131 to $488Weight: Our judgment, matching the optimistic case's 25% weight.
What moves the answer
the exit price (market outcome) 65%; growth of the rest of data center (optical DSPs, interconnect, switching, storage) FY2029-FY2032, points a year added to our path (20%, 14%, 12%, 10%) 21%; custom-chip revenue FY2029-FY2032 as a multiple of our central path ($9.9B, $12.4B, $14.4B, $15.8B) 20%; FY2028 (about calendar 2027) data-center revenue as a multiple of management's target ($17.8B of the ~$20B total) 14%How much of the spread in value each driver explains on its own; drivers that move together share credit, so the shares need not add to 100%.
Leaning cases
2 other views we ranThe same simulation with some ranges moved to another view, to show how much the answer depends on our ranges.
Case: bear_lean
an AI spending pause from 2028 and a lost custom program. The price is justified in under 20% of this case's scenarios; middle outcome $114, 10th to 90th $58.49 to $223
Case: bull_lean
custom and optics follow management's FY2031 path part of the way. The price is justified in over 50% of this case's scenarios; middle outcome $251, 10th to 90th $131 to $488
Cost of equity (original)
12.9%
Original figures
fair value $188 (bear $42, bull $352), exit $338; Avoid
Street
average $328, median $345, low $190, high $450; 40 targets in the last quarter; FMP price-target-consensus, Oct 22, 2026, 2:07 PM PDT
Restated
Oct 26, 2026, method case-spread-2026-10-24; forecast.json valued by method.py at market inputs 2026-10-01
Cost of equity calibration
+0.0 points
Calibration source
none: the 1-point cut set 2026-10-16 to pull the batch toward the Street was removed on 2026-10-18 (Dong); the cost of equity is risk-free plus beta times the premium
View rule
strong buy when the price is at or below 0.80x fair value; buy when at or below 0.90x fair value; avoid when fair value is below 0.85x the price; otherwise hold
Blind step
Partly unblinded; the model was committed in a58a893 before the record
Method
As of Oct 22, 2026, built without: Mature return holds own capital

Original call, Oct 22, 2026 (before the Oct 26, 2026 restatement)

We rate Marvell an Avoid, at the edge of Hold: at $223.47 the price is 16% above our fair value of $188 a share (pessimistic $42, optimistic $352), and 1% more value would make it a Hold. Our blind value was $259, a Buy; outside review found two errors we accept. Our exit valued Marvell's 2032 profits, which exclude amortization of acquired intangibles, at the peers' 44.4x multiple of profits after it; on a like basis the peers' multiple is 32.3x (SEC filings), worth -$46. And our margins ran ahead of Marvell's own guide of 38-40% through fiscal 2028; held to it, -$21. We take management's ~$20B revenue for fiscal 2028 (the year to January 2028) but not its $70-90B plan for fiscal 2031: our central reaches $35.6B, as our sector view holds the big cloud buyers' capital spending flat in 2027-2029. The price needs fiscal 2028 data-center revenue 18% above management's target, custom-chip revenue 39% above our path, or a peer multiple near 42x.

As of 2026-10-22 · partly unblinded: six price-level exposures in deal filings, the earnout liability, the history file and Alpha's grades before the blind commit (assumptions.md). The blind value was $259; outside review moved it to $188 (section 9).

Fair value today
$188 per share, discounting at a 12.91% cost of equity. Weighting the pessimistic, central and optimistic cases 25/50/25 (our weights, not calibrated) gives $192.
Price
$223.47, Robinhood, last regular-session trade 2026-10-22 15:59:59 ET (the official close was not yet published) → 15.8% above fair value
Five-year exit price
$338 a share on 2032-01-31: the average of two estimates, one from letting Marvell's returns fade toward its cost of capital ($188) and one from what similar chip companies have traded at ($487, at 32.3x operating profit before acquisition amortization). Fading over 10 or 20 years instead gives $330 or $344.
Five-year return
9.2% a year from $223.47 to the central exit, dividends and buybacks included, against a 12.9% cost of equity
Bear / bull today
$42 / $352: our pessimistic and optimistic cases, each one consistent business outcome.
Confidence
About 25%: our judgment of the share of simulated values within 20% of $188 (subjective, not calibrated)
Moat
Our judgment: Marvell is one of two companies (with Broadcom) that design custom AI chips for the largest cloud companies at scale, and a leading maker of the optical chips that link AI servers. It owns no factory and no software lock-in; its edge is design teams and customer programs.
Market expects
More than our central: FY2028 data-center revenue 18% above management's ~$17.8B target, or the peers' multiple at about 42x instead of 32.3x, with everything else as in our central case
Price needs
Any one of: FY2028 data-center revenue at 1.18x management's target; custom-chip revenue FY2029-32 at 1.39x our path ($13.8B rising to $22.0B); the rest of data center growing 8.9 points a year faster
Odds
P(price justified): 20-50%, the share of our simulated scenarios in which the value is at or above the price. Eight in ten simulated values fall between $82 and $374. Subjective, not calibrated (odds.json)
Key driver
The exit multiple: each 5x on the peers' multiple is about $19 a share (30x $179, 35x $198, 40x $217). Then data-center growth after FY2028: the optical and networking lines are worth -$43 / +$32 at 10 points a year slower / 8 faster; custom chips -$50 / +$51 at 0.45x / 1.6x our path.
Street
Average 12-month target $328 (median $345, range $190-450): 113 targets published over the last year averaging $232, the last quarter's 40 at $319 and the last month's 20 at $361 (FMP, fetched 2026-10-22). An expectations reference, not validation
Price and trend
Price$233.78
1M-10.7%
3M+34.0%
6M+47.8%
52w position63.0%
From high-29.1%
Relative volume0.7x
As ofOct 26, 2026
Above 21d: noAbove 50d: noAbove 200d: yes50d over 200d: yes
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