Technology
Live Price
Offline$0.69
-3.23% today
1Y Change
+415.97%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 22, 2026
Coverage: 248 bars ยท Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 22, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
IQE plc (IQEPF) is a Technology stock with a market cap of $400.00M and listed on OTC. The stock last traded around $0.69 and up 416.0% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 22, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +2.4%, EPS growth of -20.7%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +2.4%, EPS -20.7%, free cash flow -45.2% with operating margin -36.1% and ROIC -17.9%. Valuation sits in the middle of the pack at price/sales 4.1. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines IQEPF price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Technology peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Below sector median
+2.4% vs +11.9% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
-36.1% vs +22.0% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on May 20, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at +2.4% and EPS is at -20.7%, with operating margin around -36.1%.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged +0.3% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 1 of those reports.
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 May 20, 2026 | โ | -2.9% | +10.5% | +19.2% |
2025 May 13, 2025 | -2890.0% | +0.0% | -4.9% | -9.7% |
2024 Sep 10, 2024 | -55.4% | +0.0% | -4.9% | -9.7% |
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
IQEPF
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Normalized return
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
IQEPF Max Drawdown
-59.06%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for IQEPF and SPY.

Company Overview
IQE plc
Other OTC
IQE plc develops, manufactures, and sells advanced semiconductor materials. The company operates in three segments: Wireless, Photonics, and CMOS++. It manufactures compound semiconductor wafers or epiwafers using epitaxy process; offers wireless products, including GaAs, GaN, and InP-based technologies, as well as Si and Ge-based epitaxial wafer structures; and supplies GaAs HBTs, pHEMTs, and BiFETs/BiHEMTs for use in consumer mobile handsets, connected devices, 5G network infrastructure, WiFi 6, Bluetooth, and satellite communications. The company also provides photonics products, which include vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, a 3D sensing technology that enables facial recognition, gesture control, light detection and ranging (LiDAR), and other advanced sensing applications; indium phosphide (InP) laser and detector wafers that powers high speed, 5G telecommunication, and data communication fiber optic networks; Gallium Nitride (GaN) and gallium arsenide (GaSb) for multicolor uLED displays; and a range of gallium antimonide (GaSb) and InP materials that enables high definition infrared imaging and sensing in security, health monitoring, and environmental applications. In addition, it offers substrate products, such as GaSb, InP, InAs, InSb, GaSb, CZT, custom size or geometry wafers, polycrystalline materials, high purity group iii/v source materials, and bespoke orientation substrates. Further, the company provides nanoimprint lithography services. The company serves in the United States, rest of the Americas, France, Germany, Israel, the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the People's Republic of China, Japan, Taiwan, and rest of the Asia-Pacific. IQE plc was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Cardiff, the United Kingdom.
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
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