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Outperform 79 (OpenAI - 5.2)
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Outperform 79 (OpenAI - 5.2)
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Outperform 79 (OpenAI - 5.2)
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Outperform 79 (OpenAI - 5.2)
Rating:79Outperform
Price Target:
$575.00
▲(15.00% Upside)
Action:ReiteratedDate:02/25/26
The score is driven by strong financial quality (growth, profitability, and an extremely low-leverage balance sheet) and a very upbeat earnings outlook with robust guidance. Technicals also support the thesis via a strong uptrend, though momentum looks somewhat stretched. The main constraint is valuation, with a high P/E and no dividend support, alongside cash-flow variability that bears monitoring.
Positive Factors
Balance Sheet Strength
Exceptionally low leverage and a large equity base provide durable financial flexibility: management can fund capital expansion, absorb working-capital swings, and support customer ramps without adding debt. That reduces refinancing risk and preserves strategic optionality over the next several quarters.
Sustained Revenue Momentum
Multi-year top-line growth reflects durable demand across optical communications and adjacent markets, showing scalable volume and customer traction. Consistent revenue expansion supports operating leverage, steadier margins, and the ability to amortize fixed costs as production scales over a 2-6 month horizon and beyond.
HPC Ramp & Capacity Buildout
Rapid HPC and non-optical growth plus announced facility expansion create a structural revenue diversification away from just datacom. Successfully scaling new lines can raise long-term revenue mix toward higher-complexity, higher-margin products and lock in multi-year manufacturer relationships as HPC demand secularly expands.
Negative Factors
Free Cash Flow Volatility
Material decline and volatility in free cash flow suggest working-capital swings and higher reinvestment needs tied to rapid growth and capacity adds. Even with strong profitability, weaker cash conversion can constrain discretionary capital, slow deleveraging or shareholder returns, and make funding cadence more sensitive over coming quarters.
Component Supply Risk (Datacom)
Dependency on scarce, leading-edge components creates a structural risk to throughput and timing of revenue ramps. Approving a second source mitigates but does not eliminate supply concentration; repeated constraints could delay customer qualifications, compress near-term growth, and impair margins until multi-sourcing is fully proven.
Persistent FX Headwinds
Ongoing foreign-exchange pressures can structurally erode reported margins and add forecasting uncertainty. Even with hedging programs, currency moves that persist over quarters will reduce operating leverage benefits, complicate pricing dynamics with global OEMs, and require active margin management to protect profitability.

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Fabrinet Business Overview & Revenue Model

Company DescriptionFabrinet provides optical packaging and precision optical, electro-mechanical, and electronic manufacturing services in North America, the Asia-Pacific, and Europe. The company offers a range of advanced optical and electro-mechanical capabilities in the manufacturing process, including process design and engineering, supply chain management, manufacturing, printed circuit board assembly, advanced packaging, integration, final assembly, and testing. Its products include switching products, including reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers, optical amplifiers, modulators, and other optical components and modules that enable network managers to route voice, video, and data communications traffic through fiber optic cables at various wavelengths, speeds, and over various distances. The company's products also comprise tunable lasers, transceivers, and transponders; and active optical cables, which provide high-speed interconnect capabilities for data centers and computing clusters, as well as Infiniband, Ethernet, fiber channel, and optical backplane connectivity. In addition, it provides solid state, diode-pumped, gas, and fiber lasers used in semiconductor processing, biotechnology and medical device, metrology, and material processing industries; and differential pressure, micro-gyro, fuel, and other sensors used in automobiles, as well as non-contact temperature measurement sensors for the medical industry. Further, the company designs and fabricates application-specific crystals, lenses, prisms, mirrors, laser components, and substrates; and other custom and standard borosilicate, clear fused quartz, and synthetic fused silica glass products. It serves original equipment manufacturers of optical communication components, modules and sub-systems, industrial lasers, automotive components, medical devices, and sensors. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is based in George Town, the Cayman Islands.
How the Company Makes MoneyFabrinet makes money by providing contract manufacturing services to OEM customers and recognizing revenue from the sale of manufactured products and assemblies it builds to customer specifications. Its core revenue stream is manufacturing and assembly work for complex optical and electro-mechanical products—typically including component manufacturing (where applicable), sub-assembly, final assembly, optical/electrical testing, and related production services—delivered at volume to customers in markets such as optical communications and industrial lasers. Economically, Fabrinet earns a manufacturing margin: it purchases raw materials and components (or manufactures certain parts), applies labor, process engineering, and test/quality systems to build finished modules/sub-systems, and sells the completed units to customers at contracted prices that embed value for its manufacturing expertise, yields, and scale. Revenue concentration and demand are driven by customer product cycles and end-market volumes (e.g., telecom/datacom infrastructure buildouts for optical communications and capital spending cycles for industrial laser systems). The company’s earnings are also influenced by factors typical to electronics/photonics manufacturing services, including production ramp execution, capacity utilization, product mix (higher-complexity builds generally carry different margin profiles), material sourcing costs and availability, quality/yield performance, and long-term customer relationships that can lead to repeat production programs. Specific partnership details beyond customer/OEM relationships are null.

Fabrinet Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

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Revenue by Geography
Revenue by Geography
Breaks down revenue by region, exposing where Fabrinet earns sales and how dependent it is on particular markets such as North America, Asia, or Europe. Geographic trends highlight demand shifts, supply‑chain and geopolitical risk, and currency exposure, and show whether the company’s manufacturing footprint supports customer proximity and growth in key markets. Useful for assessing revenue stability and where future expansion or vulnerability may lie.
Chart InsightsAPAC has been the consistent growth engine since 2022, while North America—after a 2023 trough—re-accelerated sharply through 2024–2025 and, together with APAC, underpins the record revenue Fabrinet reported; Europe is the smallest region and only recently showing a recovery. Management links the surge to telecom/DCI demand and an emerging HPC program (driving capacity expansion via Building 10). That mix boosts top-line momentum but concentrates exposure; datacom, automotive softness or FX headwinds could cap margin upside.
Data provided by:The Fly

Fabrinet Earnings Call Summary

Earnings Call Date:Feb 02, 2026
(Q2-2026)
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Next Earnings Date:May 11, 2026
Earnings Call Sentiment Positive
The call conveyed strong, broad-based growth: record revenue and EPS, robust telecom/DCI and rapidly expanding HPC and non-optical businesses, plus confident guidance and aggressive capacity expansion funded from a strong balance sheet. Headwinds are present but appear manageable: FX pressures, recent component-driven datacom constraints (mitigating with approved second sources), a small quarterly free cash flow outflow, and lumpy early-stage HPC ramps. Overall the positives—significant revenue and earnings beats, strong margins/operating leverage, clear capacity plans, and upbeat guidance—substantially outweigh the manageable challenges.
Q2-2026 Updates
Positive Updates
Record Revenue
Q2 revenue of $1.13 billion, a company record, up 36% year-over-year and 16% sequentially.
Record Non-GAAP EPS
Non-GAAP EPS of $3.36, a new record and above guidance despite FX headwinds (included a $3 million / $0.09 per share revaluation loss).
Optical Communications Strength
Optical communications revenue of $833 million, up 29% year-over-year and 11% sequentially.
Telecom and DCI Momentum
Telecom revenue at a record $554 million, up 59% year-over-year and 17% sequentially; DCI module revenue $142 million, up 42% year-over-year and 3% sequentially, with durable demand across multiple customers.
Very Strong Non-Optical / HPC Growth
Non-optical communications revenue totaled $300 million, up 61% year-over-year and 30% sequentially; high-performance computing (HPC) revenue surged to $86 million from $15 million in Q1 (a large sequential increase) and is expected to continue ramping to a >$150 million run rate when fully ramped.
Improving Margins and Operating Leverage
Gross margin 12.4% (10 bps improvement sequentially) and operating margin 10.9% (up 30 bps sequentially and year-over-year), driven by strong top-line growth and operating leverage.
Capacity Expansion and Strong Balance Sheet
Building 10 (2 million sq ft) remains on track (about 250,000 sq ft to be ready mid-year); converting Pinehurst office/warehouse to ~120,000 sq ft manufacturing (adds meaningful revenue capacity). Cash and short-term investments $961 million and management is funding expansion with no debt.
Forward Guidance
Q3 revenue guidance of $1.15–$1.20 billion (~35% year-over-year growth at midpoint) and non-GAAP EPS guidance of $3.45–$3.60 (~40% year-over-year growth at midpoint), indicating continued confidence in demand and profitability.
Negative Updates
Datacom Year-over-Year Decline
Datacom revenue of $278 million declined 7% year-over-year, though it did increase 2% sequentially and management expects sequential improvement as supply dynamics ease.
Foreign Exchange Headwinds
Reported a $3 million FX revaluation loss in Q2 (approx. $0.09 per share) and management expects continued FX pressure in Q3, with an anticipated 20–30 basis point headwind to gross margin.
Supply Constraints Impacting Datacom
Leading-edge datacom products (200G/lane nodes) faced component constraints—particularly lasers (EML)—which limited shipments; a second source was approved during the quarter but supply constraints had been a growth limiter.
Negative Free Cash Flow in Quarter
Operating cash flow was $46 million, capex $52 million, resulting in a free cash flow outflow of $5 million for the quarter and a slight cash decline of $7 million versus Q1.
Automotive Mixed Trend
Automotive revenue of $117 million was up 12% year-over-year but declined slightly sequentially, and management expects another modest sequential decline in Q3.
HPC Revenue Lumpy and Early-stage
HPC growth is rapid but lumpy—management has only two quarters of breakout data ($86M in Q2 vs $15M in Q1) and full ramp timing and sustainability depend on qualifying additional production lines and execution.
Company Guidance
Fabrinet guided Q3 revenue of $1.15–$1.20 billion (about 35% year‑over‑year growth at the midpoint) and non‑GAAP EPS of $3.45–$3.60 (≈40% YoY growth at the midpoint), saying they expect sequential revenue growth in telecom, datacom and HPC while anticipating a modest sequential decline in automotive; management cautioned FX headwinds will persist but said they plan to offset them with continued operating leverage, noting their hedging program implies roughly a 20–30 basis‑point gross‑margin headwind versus the prior quarter (Q2 results were $1.13B revenue, +36% YoY and +16% QoQ, and non‑GAAP EPS of $3.36 which included a $3.0M / $0.09 FX revaluation loss).

Fabrinet Financial Statement Overview

Summary
Fundamentals are strong overall: solid revenue growth and ~10%+ operating profitability, plus an exceptionally conservative balance sheet with minimal debt. The main offset is cash-flow volatility, with a sharp recent decline in free cash flow and weaker cash conversion versus the prior year.
Income Statement
86
Very Positive
FN shows strong top-line momentum with revenue up 8.3% in TTM (Trailing-Twelve-Months) and a multi-year expansion from ~$1.88B (2021) to ~$3.89B (TTM). Profitability is solid and fairly consistent, with TTM operating margin ~10.5% and net margin ~9.7%. A key watch item is modest margin pressure versus 2023–2024 levels (gross and EBITDA margins have drifted down), suggesting a slightly less favorable mix or higher costs even as earnings remain strong.
Balance Sheet
95
Very Positive
The balance sheet is a clear strength: leverage is extremely low (TTM debt-to-equity ~0.003; total debt ~$4.9M against ~$2.18B equity). Equity and assets have grown meaningfully over time, supporting scale-up without relying on debt. Returns are attractive and stable, with return on equity ~17.9% in TTM (Trailing-Twelve-Months), indicating efficient capital use; the main limitation is not financial risk, but that returns will depend on sustaining operating performance rather than balance-sheet leverage.
Cash Flow
64
Positive
Cash generation is positive but more volatile. In TTM (Trailing-Twelve-Months), operating cash flow is ~$278M and free cash flow is ~$102M, but free cash flow fell sharply (about -49% growth) versus the prior annual period. Cash conversion is moderate, with free cash flow at ~58% of net income in TTM, down from stronger conversion in 2024 (free cash flow was ~88% of net income). The trend suggests higher reinvestment needs or working-capital swings, which bears monitoring even though profitability remains solid.
BreakdownTTMJun 2025Jun 2024Jun 2023Jun 2022Jun 2021
Income Statement
Total Revenue3.89B3.42B2.88B2.65B2.26B1.88B
Gross Profit467.60M413.35M356.12M336.27M278.59M221.36M
EBITDA458.04M408.61M360.50M305.40M246.14M187.84M
Net Income374.09M332.53M296.18M247.91M200.38M148.34M
Balance Sheet
Total Assets3.27B2.83B2.34B1.98B1.84B1.62B
Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments960.77M934.24M858.60M550.47M478.15M547.93M
Total Debt8.08M9.15M8.63M13.42M31.15M45.96M
Total Liabilities1.08B849.62M592.77M510.99M581.96M503.60M
Stockholders Equity2.18B1.98B1.75B1.47B1.25B1.11B
Cash Flow
Free Cash Flow101.79M206.55M365.62M151.04M33.66M74.18M
Operating Cash Flow278.11M328.37M413.15M213.31M124.25M122.16M
Investing Cash Flow-276.34M-286.30M-169.75M-98.72M-135.54M-8.93M
Financing Cash Flow-86.30M-147.01M-64.85M-80.98M-92.93M-42.75M

Fabrinet Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis Sentiment
Negative
Last Price500.02
Price Trends
50DMA
501.97
Negative
100DMA
476.42
Positive
200DMA
399.48
Positive
Market Momentum
MACD
1.40
Positive
RSI
46.23
Neutral
STOCH
32.68
Neutral
Evaluating momentum and price trends is crucial in stock analysis to make informed investment decisions. For FN, the sentiment is Negative. The current price of 500.02 is below the 20-day moving average (MA) of 540.36, below the 50-day MA of 501.97, and above the 200-day MA of 399.48, indicating a neutral trend. The MACD of 1.40 indicates Positive momentum. The RSI at 46.23 is Neutral, neither overbought nor oversold. The STOCH value of 32.68 is Neutral, not indicating any strong overbought or oversold conditions. Overall, these indicators collectively point to a Negative sentiment for FN.

Fabrinet Risk Analysis

Fabrinet disclosed 41 risk factors in its most recent earnings report. Fabrinet reported the most risks in the "Finance & Corporate" category.
Finance & Corporate - Financial and accounting risks. Risks related to the execution of corporate activity and strategy
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Fabrinet Peers Comparison

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Sector (61)
Financial Indicators
Name
Overall Rating
Market Cap
P/E Ratio
ROE
Dividend Yield
Revenue Growth
EPS Growth
79
Outperform
$17.91B38.0118.39%19.71%14.83%
74
Outperform
$5.24B24.7412.39%1.82%56.52%
69
Neutral
$46.08B48.813.58%20.80%
69
Neutral
$15.39B36.4611.54%0.54%8.13%780.20%
67
Neutral
$27.70B38.4751.13%0.14%13.18%-38.37%
66
Neutral
$6.83B42.409.86%7.40%13.79%
61
Neutral
$37.18B12.37-10.20%1.83%8.50%-7.62%
* Technology Sector Average
Performance Comparison
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Company Name
Price
Change
% Change
FN
Fabrinet
500.02
277.16
124.37%
COHR
Coherent Corp
245.80
180.42
275.96%
JBL
Jabil
262.35
126.94
93.75%
MKSI
MKS
228.89
141.76
162.70%
PLXS
Plexus
195.54
71.76
57.97%
SANM
Sanmina-Sci
125.11
48.92
64.21%
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This AI Analyst Stock Report is automatically generated by our AI systems using advanced algorithms and publicly available financial, technical, and market data. While the information provided aims to be accurate and insightful, it is intended for informational purposes only and should not be considered financial advice. Any content created by an AI (Artificial Intelligence) system may contain inaccuracies and/or contain errors. Investing in stocks carries inherent risks, and past performance is not indicative of future results. This report does not account for your personal financial circumstances, objectives, or risk tolerance. Always conduct your own research or consult with a qualified financial advisor before making investment decisions. The analysis and recommendations provided are based on historical and current data and may not fully reflect future market conditions or unexpected developments. Neither the creators of this report nor its affiliated entities guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the information presented. Use this report at your own discretion and risk.Date of analysis: Feb 25, 2026