Technology
PDF Solutions, Inc.(PDFS)
Live Price
Offline$65.36
+7.02% today
1Y Change
+204.85%
Window
Jun 26, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026
- Market Cap
- $1.78B
- Revenue Growth
- +22.0%
- EPS Growth
- -114.8%
- Dividend Yield
- 0.0%
Coverage: 246 bars ยท Jun 26, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
PDF Solutions, Inc. (PDFS) is a Technology stock with a market cap of $1.78B and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $65.36 and up 204.9% across the available one-year price window (Jun 26, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +22.0%, EPS growth of -114.8%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +22.0%, EPS -114.8%, free cash flow -15.1% with operating margin 2.7% and ROIC -0.3%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at price/sales 8.1. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a higher-growth but lower-margin setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines PDFS 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
Above sector median
+22.0% vs +11.9% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
+2.7% 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 14, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at +22.0% and EPS is at -114.8%, with operating margin around 2.7%.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged -3.6% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 1 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 May 14, 2026 | โ | -2.9% | -3.2% | +39.3% |
2026 Feb 12, 2026 | +25.0% | +4.9% | +1.0% | -1.1% |
2025 Nov 6, 2025 | +0.0% | -3.8% | -8.5% | +8.2% |
Benchmark Edge
PDFS vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
PDFS
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
PDFS Max Drawdown
-24.65%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for PDFS and SPY.
Company Overview
PDF Solutions, Inc.
NASDAQ Global Select
PDF Solutions, Inc. provides proprietary software and physical intellectual property products for integrated circuit designs, electrical measurement hardware tools, proven methodologies, and professional services in the United States, China, Japan, Taiwan, and internationally. The company offers Exensio software products, such as Manufacturing Analytics that stores collected data in a common environment with a consistent view for enabling product engineers to identify and analyze production yield, performance, reliability, and other issues; Process Control that provides failure detection and classification capabilities for monitoring, alarming, and controlling manufacturing tool sets; Test Operations that offers data collection and analysis capabilities; and Assembly Operations that provides device manufacturers with the capability to link assembly and packaging data, including fabrication and characterization data over the product life cycle. It also provides design-for-inspection (DFI) Systems, such as DFI on-chip instruments; eProbe non-contactless E-beam tool; and Characterization Vehicle (CV) system, which includes CV test chips and pdFasTest electrical testers, as well as Exensio characterization software, designed to analyze the measurements collected from DFI on-chip instruments using the eProbe tool. In addition, the company offers Cimetrix software products that enables equipment manufacturers to provide industry standard interfaces on their products; and software-as-a-service, software related services, and characterization services. It sells its technologies and services through direct sales force, service teams, and strategic alliances to integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor companies, foundries, equipment manufacturers, electronics manufacturing suppliers, original device manufacturers, out-sourced semiconductor assembly and test, and system houses. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
- Leadership
- John K. Kibarian
- IPO Date
- Jul 31, 2001
- Employees
- 539
- Street Address
- 2858 De La Cruz Boulevard
- Mailing
- Santa Clara, CA, 95050
- Region
- Santa Clara, CA, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 408 280 7900
- Last Updated
- May 3, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- โ
- EV/EBITDA
- 109.8
- Price/Sales
- 8.1
- Price/Book
- 6.5
Growth
- Revenue
- +22.0%
- EPS
- -114.8%
- Free Cash Flow
- -15.1%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 72.8%
- Operating Margin
- 2.7%
- Net Margin
- -0.3%
- ROE
- -0.2%
- ROIC
- -0.3%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.28
- Current Ratio
- 2.28
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
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